Two gas giants and three galaxies!

Last night just before midnight the skies were pretty clear for a change, so I thought I'd try out various camera settings on the fanous Andromeda Galaxy, M31. (All the various fuzzy objects in the night sky were catalogued by Messier, a French comet-hunter who wanted to be sure what he'd found was a new comet and noit a galaxy or nebula. Such objects were assigned an 'M' number) I couldn't quite get things 100%, but below are the better efforts: you can see two other galaxies close by M31.

Jupiter was conveniently placed for photography of its moons, although the triangle of three bright stars close by were confusing! Nearby the greenish gas giant planet Uranus was easy to pick out...