arlene sopranzetti
Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
My first somewhat decent photograph of a galaxy.
I struggled in many ways to capture this. First was my light-polluted location of a NYC suburb, plus in my excitement of clear skies, I forgot to use my light pollution filter. The night before I shorted out my dew zapper controller so this night I had to make do with hand warmers attached to my lens. It literally took me hours to find the galaxy in my 560mm focal view. It's so frustrating trying to blindly navigate the night sky. The resulting stacked photograph had a huge magenta color cast on half the image. I will continue to practice astrophotography so I am prepared for a more suitable location.
46 images stacked with Nebulosity. 560mm, f8, iso 400, 90s.
Dark, flat, and bias frames were also used in the processing.
Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
My first somewhat decent photograph of a galaxy.
I struggled in many ways to capture this. First was my light-polluted location of a NYC suburb, plus in my excitement of clear skies, I forgot to use my light pollution filter. The night before I shorted out my dew zapper controller so this night I had to make do with hand warmers attached to my lens. It literally took me hours to find the galaxy in my 560mm focal view. It's so frustrating trying to blindly navigate the night sky. The resulting stacked photograph had a huge magenta color cast on half the image. I will continue to practice astrophotography so I am prepared for a more suitable location.
46 images stacked with Nebulosity. 560mm, f8, iso 400, 90s.
Dark, flat, and bias frames were also used in the processing.