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M31 is a huge galaxy called Andromeda in constellation Andromeda, size 192'X62' and magnitude 4. Heres just the central bulge showing some inner dust clouds on the north side of the nucleus. All of the 13 globular clusters around the Andromeda galaxy center are also visible. Click the image above to see it and the object designations. The dust cloud is designated as D395.
Exposure time was 5 minutes. Image area 11'X7'.

More images

	Dust clouds near galaxy center, an image and a map
	A mosaic of M31 - started 28.9.2001 - still under construction
	A map of objects visible in the above mosaic

Objects found in the Andromeda galaxy

Type of Object	Number Identified	Reference
Globular clusters	355	Sargent et al. 1977
	>350	Battistini et al. 1980
Open clusters	403	Hodge 1979
Dust Clouds	730	Hodge 1980
Star associations	188	van den Berg 1964
H II regions	981	Courtes et al. 1978
H III regions	686	Baade and Arp 1964
SN remnants	7	Kumar 1976
Planetary nebulae	311	Ford and Jacoby 1978
Variable stars	54	Baade and Swope 1963
	223	Gaposchkin 1962
	50	Hubble 1929
Novae	176	Rosino 1972
X-ray sources	69	van Speybroeck et al. 1979
Supergiants	11	Humphreys 1979

References

Juhani Salmi	JS-Observatory
Bill Keel's images of M31 (with my notes)	University of Alabama
Paul W. Hodge: An Atlas of the Andromeda Galaxy (1981)	the University of Washington Press, Feb 1982	ISBN: 0295957956

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