. # 17 (yellow for the Local Group)
The Andromeda galaxy, M31, and one of its' satellite galaxies, M32.  Now
we have to leave our Galaxy and proceed to the ones near us.  Our sister
galaxy, Andromeda, consists of nearly a trillion stars/brown dwarfs like
our Milky Way, tho bigger, about 2 million light-years away. As with
the Crab, the objects are so faint that they had to be enhanced by
computer to better see them, even though, in apparent size, M31 is about
the same size as the full Moon.

M31 has a blue-shift, meaning it is 1 of the few galaxies of trillions
in the Universe (in our Local Group) that is actually on a collision
course with the Milky Way. It is rushing toward us at about a
quarter-million miles per hour, and will merge with our Galaxy in about
4 eons. 

#17     from IMG0013.pcd, taken 09/10/93, f/6.3, ASA 100, 7min