M32 (NGC 205) in LRGB
Taken on the night of 2023-11-11 from my Bortle 8/9 backyard in Long Beach, CA
Celestron Edge HD 925 at 1530 mm focal length (0.87"/pixel scale) with an Atik 414-EX camera and Optolong LRGB filters.
L: 55 30 s exposures
R: 14 120 s exposures
G: 14 120 s exposures
B: 15 120 s exposures
Data acquisition done with N.I.N.A.
Preprocessing in Nebulosity; registration, stacking, channel combination, and initial processing in PixInsight; final touches in GIMP.
M32 is a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Portions of the disk of M31 are visible in the lower right portion of the image. I also wanted to get the luminosity data to have a comparison frame for looking for novae associated with this galaxy.
M32 (NGC 205) in LRGB
Taken on the night of 2023-11-11 from my Bortle 8/9 backyard in Long Beach, CA
Celestron Edge HD 925 at 1530 mm focal length (0.87"/pixel scale) with an Atik 414-EX camera and Optolong LRGB filters.
L: 55 30 s exposures
R: 14 120 s exposures
G: 14 120 s exposures
B: 15 120 s exposures
Data acquisition done with N.I.N.A.
Preprocessing in Nebulosity; registration, stacking, channel combination, and initial processing in PixInsight; final touches in GIMP.
M32 is a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Portions of the disk of M31 are visible in the lower right portion of the image. I also wanted to get the luminosity data to have a comparison frame for looking for novae associated with this galaxy.