Super~Six ☆ Stage #6 ☆ Andromeda "50." Invite Only (P1/A5)
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Not with a telescope - just a camera piggybacked onto the back of it. A heavy crop (1/6 of the full image)
Credits:
LeLUTKA Lilly Head 2.5
Stealthic - Clarity
*LE* Serena Rose
♫♬♪♩Clash of the Titans (1981) - Soundtrack
No. 16 Andromeda Rescued - Laurence Rosenthal, Clash of the Titans Soundtrack♫♬♪♩
The Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way and one of the most magnificent objects in the night sky. Visible as a faint small smudge from a dark site on a moonless night, M31 is a gigantic aggregation of hundreds of billions of stars at a distance of about 2.5 million light years.
Once thought to be a nebula inside our own Galaxy, its true nature was discovered by Edwin Hubble in 1925, which measured the distance of this "island universe" by studying a special class of pulsating stars known as Cepheids.
M31 is classified as a spiral galaxy with its galactic plane inclined about 13 degrees to our line of sight, and it is therefore seen nearly edge-on. It has, as our own Galaxy, a number of smaller satellite galaxies, the most prominent of which are M32 (the bright, star-like concentration at bottom right at the edge of the spiral arm) and M110, the more extended bright patch at upper left. Astronomers have found evidence of a massive black hole at the center of this galaxy (as is the case for our own Milky Way).
They have also calculated that we are in a collision course with our grand neighbor in space: approaching each other at a speed of about 100 Km/sec, the two galaxies will collide in about 4 billion years and maybe merge into a giant elliptical galaxy.
Image Details:
Telescope: Orion EON ED 80/500 refractor
Mount: Modified Vixen Sphinx (NexSXW)
Camera: Canon EOS 20Da
Light frames: 19 x 3 mins (total: 57 mins), ISO 1600, Daylight WB, no filter
Guiding: Skywatcher 80/400 refractor, Skywatcher Synguider autoguider
Processing: DSS 3.3.4, Adobe Photoshop CS6
Die Andromeda Galaxy M31 vom 19.09.2020. Eigentlich war die Aufnahme nur ein Setup- und Autoguiding Test. Jetzt habe ich die Aufnahme dafür benutzt um in Pixinsight und Photoshop etwas zu üben. Mit dem Ergebnis bin ich trotz der kurzen Belichtungszeit eigentlich recht zufrieden.
Ts 80/480mm Triplet-APO
Ts Red379 Reducer
Skywatcher AZ-EQ5-GT
Zwo Asi 183Mc Pro
22x120sek
10 Darkframes
15 Flatframes
I couldn't resist shooting the other way after the first shot .We just don't get stars like this in the city. I was just amazed. Vlog below..
Triple Nice Shot! (3-9)
10+ Doubly Nice Awards Competition
Color Photo Award - BRONZE
FreedomHawk 5+
FreedomHawk G. of Excellence Invited Only FAV2+AWARD2 (25+fav)
Platinum & Gold Double Dragon Awards 5+
Andromeda 10+
Dazzling Shots 9
Super A+++ 3
the king group Elite
Best Of DAMN! I Wish I'd Taken That
Platinum Hearts Hall of Fame 3
4 shots tracked with the Vixen Polarie then stacked in photoshop.
Exif is wrong, first shot was as it says, other 3 were 1'30" af f5.6, ISO 3200 :)
View full size for result!. Reduced the core brightness on this pic revealing ,more core detail, and overall contrast.
MN190, 3h 41m 81 frames, plus darks and flats and bias frames.
EOS760D Stock, Enhance narrow band tri filter.
MN190, F5.3, 7.5 inch Maksutov Newtonian .
Sky Watcher NEQ6 goto mount.
M GEN3 stand alone auto guider. 40mm guide scope.
3h 41m 81 frames, ISO 3200.
Post processing in Lightroom and Canon DDP.
Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, is our galactic neighbour, just 2.5million lightyears down the road. While not an especially easy target for us southern hemisphere'rs to image, its colossal size, and stunning good looks make it worth trying.
Equipment:
📷 Camera: ZWO ASI533 MC Pro
🔭 Scope: SkyWatcher Esprit 80
🌏 Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
📷 Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM
🔭 Guide Scope: Orion 50
Image:
Lights 20x 60”, 10x 120”, 13x 240”
Darks
Bias
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Made from 36 light frames (60 second exposures) with 12 dark frames by Starry Sky Stacker 1.3.1. Algorithm: Mean
Taken at Schulman Grove, high on White Mountain. Made from 23 light frames (75 sec each) by Starry Sky Stacker 1.3.1. Algorithm: Mean
A nice evening under the stars with a moonless and cloudless sky in East Tennessee.
Nikon 500mm f/4P ED IF AI-S
Nikon 1.4 teleconverter
@ f8 30 sec 3200 ISO
51 x light frames
11 x dark frames
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker.