[dr_lew]

Here's my own "standard camera" effort, which I believe I've already posted in this forum, a few years ago, now. It's more or less a "snapshot", by the standards of astrophotography. Well, just try it! See the dust lanes?

[doorgunner69]

You did good. I have been a failure at even finding the thing in the sky, being such a tool at start gazing.

I blame it on being tone deaf and having no sense of rhythm.

[Telepathic Intruder]

With my giant binos I can clearly see the core of M31. Even with all the light pollution I get here, however, I still see the faint spiral arms reaching the edges of my FOV. It doesn’t amaze me anymore, however, that the light is two and a half million years old. According to special relativity, the time frame of the light itself is stopped, and is no older than any other light.