Basudeb Chakrabarti from Kolkata, India

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) hangs within the sky over the mountains of Kyrgyzstan close to Tash Rabat on this picture taken with a Nikon Z 6II full-frame mirrorless digital camera and a 135mm lens at f/2. The sky frames include sixty 20-second exposures at ISO 1000; the foreground was captured with three 2-minute exposures at ISO 1600.