Our closest neighbor - except for the Magellanic Clouds which are satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. 2.5 million light years away (about 14,696,563,400,000,000,000 miles away), and the halos of our galaxies are arleady colliding.
I had the worst luck finding this one! First try was on the top of a hill, manual tripod, tar-hopping. Complete failure. Next try was with an all-sky lens (about 170 ° field of view) in my back yard. Got a glimpse through the trees. First images of a comet, learned a lot about how not to do it!
