What have I taken a picture of?

https://i.redd.it/0b2micjwr9md1.jpeg

13 Comments

  1. It’s a confused comet going multiple directions simultaneously, happens all the time Broh trust my dad’s dentist’s sister visited the Kennedy Space Centre.

  2. I’m going to take a guess that’s it’s the Andromeda Galaxy as it’s the only one thing, except planets and the Moon, big enough to be reasonably captured with amateur gear.

  3. That is Andromeda galaxy (M31), it seems that you have also managed to capture satelite galaxies of M31: M32 and M110
    The M32 appears as a bright point in the disc of The galaxy
    And M110 appears as a small elongated smudge over The M31

  4. GravitationalEddie on

    IPhone user takes a picture of a specificly random part of the sky using the camera’s built–in astrophotography mode, and asks what the thing in the middle of the photo might be. Coincidence?

  5. It’s probably the Andromeda galaxy, although it could possibly be the Sombrero galaxy when you look at the position of the stars around it.

  6. Took an image of Andromeda specifically with a 17″ robotic telescope and did a bunch of processing and it looks roughly the same quality as your Iphone image lol. Most likely did not have the best sensitivity settings for my image.