The Andromeda Galaxy project start
Messier 31 in Andromeda is the nearest spiral galaxy and the largest of our local group.
Shot over three nights of slowly improving darkness (now upto 5 hrs of darkness a night), this
LRGB 2x2 mosaic was exposed with 6x10min for luminance and upto 5x10min for RGB. The shutter failed completely during the project and some sub-exposures for color channels were a lost cause. The short darkness presented additional challenges with difficult gradients from twilight skies. That combined into a rather uneven set of exposures beyond my processing capabilities.
This is a 50% scaled down version of the full mosaic.
The Andromeda Galaxy project start
Messier 31 in Andromeda is the nearest spiral galaxy and the largest of our local group.
Shot over three nights of slowly improving darkness (now upto 5 hrs of darkness a night), this
LRGB 2x2 mosaic was exposed with 6x10min for luminance and upto 5x10min for RGB. The shutter failed completely during the project and some sub-exposures for color channels were a lost cause. The short darkness presented additional challenges with difficult gradients from twilight skies. That combined into a rather uneven set of exposures beyond my processing capabilities.
This is a 50% scaled down version of the full mosaic.