DustSpeakers
The Andromeda galaxy
Although I've imaged the Andromeda galaxy every year for the past 4 years I felt I'd never really done it justice, so this year I decided to try and get a 'poster quality' image. This image includes data added to the image from August (flic.kr/p/2nHVN3M) over 4 sessions between August and September 2022, including 5 hours of Hydrogen Alpha data to highlight those pink star forming regions in the spiral arms of the galaxy, The dust lanes in the galaxy show up nicely so I'm happy with this result. On to other objects when the lousy weather allows!
Equipment: Redcat 51, ASI1600MM with LRGB filters, ZWO EAF, Ioptron GEM28 mount
- 45 x 200s Luminance,
- 35 x 200s each of RGB,
- 30 x 600s Ha
at -15degC cooled camera, processed in APP, StarTools and Gimp.
The Andromeda galaxy
Although I've imaged the Andromeda galaxy every year for the past 4 years I felt I'd never really done it justice, so this year I decided to try and get a 'poster quality' image. This image includes data added to the image from August (flic.kr/p/2nHVN3M) over 4 sessions between August and September 2022, including 5 hours of Hydrogen Alpha data to highlight those pink star forming regions in the spiral arms of the galaxy, The dust lanes in the galaxy show up nicely so I'm happy with this result. On to other objects when the lousy weather allows!
Equipment: Redcat 51, ASI1600MM with LRGB filters, ZWO EAF, Ioptron GEM28 mount
- 45 x 200s Luminance,
- 35 x 200s each of RGB,
- 30 x 600s Ha
at -15degC cooled camera, processed in APP, StarTools and Gimp.