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Aug 12, 2013 18:26 | #1

I am new to this night sky photography -so I am not real versed in all the names of stuff in the sky - I have been shooting the last 2 nights at the Milky way in hopes of getting a Meteor to pass but not much luck - however I did like the small "spiral galaxy" type feature that I captured in the lower right side of the picture -all of the shots that I took in this area showed this feature - I am sure some one can give me the name - I would appreciate it -
I was using a Skytracker - that is cool no star trails and good long exposure

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this is the only one I got with a meteor

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Aug 12, 2013 18:52 | #2

Well done. That's the Andromeda galaxy. Also known in geek-speak as M31.

"Treat every photon with respect" - David Malin.

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Aug 14, 2013 00:20 | #3

Steve is right.
And if you need more localization landmark pints:

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Aug 14, 2013 22:49 | #4

thanks Samsen and Steve - I am going to give it a go with my sky tracker and my 400 -

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