Date: 9/2/2009
Telescope: Vixen ED80Sf
Camera: Canon 40D (modified)
Exposures: 52x240 seconds @ ISO1600, 20 Darks
Location: Mocksville, NC
Temp: 67F
Seeing: 3/5
Transparency: 4/5
Captured in Nebulosity, stacked using DeepSkyStacker, processed in Photoshop.
This is simply a crop of M110 from the M31 full-frame. Hence the poor quality. I've included it in this album for completeness.
Messier 110 (also known as M110 and NGC 205) is a
dwarf elliptical galaxy that is a
satellite of the
Andromeda Galaxy. M110 contains some dust and hints of recent star formation, which is unusual for dwarf elliptical galaxies in general