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This past Friday was a beautiful evening, so I decided to set up the astronomical equipment and capture a close-up, 65-minute exposure of the Andromeda Galaxy and NGC 205 also designated as Messier 110 to the lower left.

Messier 110 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy that acts as a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy also designated M31.
The image was captured using the Explore Scientific ED 165mm APO refractor at F/7, using an ASI2600 CMOS color camera, with a temperature set at -15 Celsius.

An LPO filter was used to reduce light pollution and calibrated images, lights, darks, bias, and flats.  
Stacking software used Astro Pixel Processor.