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High-quality, sharp astrophoto of most popular object - Andromeda galaxy (M31) which is 2.5 million light years away. It's a combination of many photos taken during many nights, processed in special astronomical programs to get great details. Photographed with high quality astronomical CCD's through different high quality newtonian and apochromatic telescopes along several years. It can be easy flipped, rotated and still maintein visual quality.

Hand-drawn doodle pencil sketch of various physics subject matter. Includes: atoms, earth, E=Mc2, magnet, Newton's 2nd Law, galaxy, lever, pulley, winch, inclined plane, gears, optics, electrical calculation, Law of Gravity, pendulum, etc. All images are grouped and on separate layers making for easy changes. Graph paper on layer that can be easily removed. XL 5000x5000 jpeg included.

M51 the Vortex Galaxy is located in the constellation of hunting dogs and is 31 million light years away from us. It is one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky so much so that it was discovered in 1773 by Charles Messier while observing a comet. Its particular shape is due to the fact that we are facing two very distinct but interacting galaxies (M51a and M51b), some researchers think that the great definition of the arms of this galaxy is due precisely to this "galactic" interference . Photograph taken in March 2020 through the use of the personal observatory 3z Observatory.

Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The diffuse light from Andromeda is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it. The several distinct stars that surround Andromeda's image are actually stars in our Galaxy that are well in front of the background object. M31 is so distant it takes about two million years for light to reach us from there. This image was captured using amateur astrophotography equipment including a Skywatcher 80mm telescope, a QHY269M monochrome camera and a seven position filter wheel containg Red, Green, Blue, Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen III and Sulphur II filters. Tracking was done using an iOptron CEM70G mount and PHD2 guiding software. It was entirely processed using PixInsight.

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