Here's a brief 40s exposure of M31 via my wide-angle finder camera that reveals the dust lanes of this near edge-on galaxy and two satellite galaxies M110 and M32 [marked].
M31 appears as a faint fuzzy to the eye or in binoculars high in the east [starmap needed] in the late evening and is our twin neighbouring galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy and contain millions of stars
