Imaging Andromeda

Capturing the 2.5-million-year-old light of M31 is a fun project for new astrophotographers

M31 is famously the most distant thing visible to the naked eye, but that’s only true if you have good eyesight, a dark sky with no light pollution, and you know where to look for it. Luckily, even if you have none of those things, it’s quite easy to photograph this beautiful spiral galaxy – all you need is a DSLR on a sturdy tripod. You don’t even need a tracker or stacking software. To take a portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, fit either your wide-angle lens or standard 50mm lens onto your DSLR, mount it on a sturdy tripod, open the lens to its widest aperture and then focus in sharply on a light on the horizon. With its ISO set to 800, aim your camera at the…

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The Astronomer's Yearbook (Digital) - 1 Issue, Astronomer's Yearbook 2022

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