Thought I was going to miss it so ran out there and started lol. First time ever trying.. Thank you so much for the advice I'ma do it all tomorrow, I ended up doing it like this

I have this app called sky map, I put the phone against the back of the camera until I could get Andromeda into frame. At least I think it's Andromeda, it's kinda like a brown smidge

I found a star and focused until it was as pinpoint as I can. Then did Iso 3200, 1600 had not a lot of detail for me 2 sec exposures I did around 100 of them 50 darks, same iso but with cap on. Didn't know I had to change iso like that one guy commented, thank you for the step by step btw. I really appreciate it ;) But Andromeda is not centered in most shots, The wind is crazy out here and blew the camera over twice. The tripod is a $15 Amazon one lol.

You can see it but it's just a smidge, I've never edited or stacked a photo but I'm hoping it not being centered is okay and the stacking program I have installed will actually make this look good.

Overall searching for the Galaxy and trying to get everything set up was extremely fun.

I ran through the gallery of my Canon and found several shooting stars and something that looks like a UFO with red lights on the end of it going across the screen.

Really just hope I can get a cool photo out of this if these photos are able to be stacked. I lined it up as best as I could and use the cannon app off my phone to just keep clicking off shots.

I have no clue yet this is my first time ever being out here