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Another go at the data captured in early September. Used the Ha data as Luminance but not overly enthusiastic about the result. Will have a new go at all the subs taken. Location Stockholm, bortle 9, ASI294MM PRO. Subs ranging from 30s to 180s. Mount AZEQ6GT.
Processed and stacked in Pixinsight, adapted in PS. WO Magrez90 refractor.
The Andromeda Galaxy was one of the first deep sky objects and the first galaxy that I captured not long after I arrived in the USA. My desire to be able to capture galaxies visible only in the northern hemisphere such as the glorious Andromeda Galaxy was one of the main reasons for moving to the USA in the first place.
While there are countless galaxies to photograph the Andromeda Galaxy has helped to inspire me to go further. Over the years I have captured M31 many times in an effort to improve and review as my processing style and techniques have changed and developed, each time I strive to obtain better data as well. So I hope you like this latest version which is quite a bit different from previous versions of mine, in as much as the slight color variation and the lighter dust lanes allows the observation of more and finer detail. You may or may not notice but I have also orientated M31 90 degrees from my previous imagery which I find much more pleasing to the eye, of course that's just my opinion.
Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory over 6 nights in August and September 2018 using the QHY367C CMOS camera on Grand Mesa Observatory’s System 1, the Walter Holloway TAK 130 FSQ, 2 minute and 4 minute exposures were used for the color and 10 minute exposures were used for the H Alpha filter for a total integration time of 12.93 Hours
Over the next few weeks you will be seeing more of Andromeda from me as I finish collecting data using the William Optics Redcat 51 APO and the QHY16200A for a very wide field image
For comparison to some of my earlier imagery of M31:
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/albums/72157631893020150
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Whitewater, Colorado
Aug 6, 7, 20, Sep 7, 8, 11
RGB 83 x 2 min, 40 x 4 min, 45 x 10 min 5nm Chroma H Alpha Filter
Camera: QHY367C
Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark Frames no Flat.
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Filters by Chroma
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5
Pre Processing in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Drifting through the cosmos a mere two and a half million light-years distant, the Andromeda Galaxy is the most voluminous of the galaxies in the Local Group, which includes our own Milky Way galaxy. Visible to the unaided eye in a dark location, the central core can be seen as a tiny smudge. In a moderate telescope, M31 can be seen with its two largest satellite galaxies; M32 and M110. Visible in this photograph are the dusty lanes of stellar debris visible as the dark bands. The remnants of stellar deaths, this material will be recycled into new stars and planets as gravitational forces compress the matter within the chaotic environment. M31 and our own Milky Way Galaxy are on a collision course. Expected to collide in roughly four and a half billion years, it should certainly provide a spectacular show for anyone around to witness its approach
This picture was taken Near San Esteban At about 100Km from Santiago (Chile) on 13/09/2015
M31 is very low in our sky, no more than 16 degrees above the horizon.
Canon 7D mark II - William Optics 98 FLT 52x30s no guiding
September 16. 2017.
Telescope: Sky-Watcher MN190 on AZ-EQ6 GT
Camera: Canon450D mod
Frames: 36x420s (4.2 hours of cumulative exposure)
Software: BackyardEOS & PHD2 for capture; Pixinsight & Photoshop for post processing.
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts... (from Wikipedia)
Being a very large object in our sky, my telescope's 1000mm focal length and 1.25º x 0.83º field of view wasn't nearly enough to capture whole galaxy in one shoot so my choice was "left" part of the galaxy including it's bright core which contains supermassive black whole. In spiral arms there are lots of dust lanes and big blueish star cloud known as NGC 206 along with some of the Ha regions visible. There is also small but bright satellite galaxy M32 near upper edge of the Andromeda Galaxy
My first ever attempt at shooting a deep space object like this. This is a single exposure (not stacked) shot with a Canon EOS R and Sigma 150-600mm lens and tracked using an Omegon Mini Track LX2 mechanical spring-wound tracker.
A friend persuaded me to try shooting this and I'm glad I did. We headed out to a dark portion of the Anza-Borrego Desert on January 16, 2021 and had excellent conditions. First, the sky was clear and there was no wind. And the temperature was unusually warm for this time of year. I hadn't used my tracker in about a year and it took me quite some time to find the galaxy and then get it properly focused. I started out at 150mm and after what seemed like forever, I finally got it in my frame. Then I centered the galaxy in my frame and gradually zoomed in closer and closer until I got to 600mm. Exposure: 25 sec f/6.3 ISO 2500.
I can't wait to try shooting something like this again - and try stacking images for an even sharper result with more detail and even less noise.
This is Andromeda galaxy about half way through the data I hope to capture. This is 2.5hrs worth of data so far, and there is still some obvious work to be done on backgrounds etc, but its getting there!
The story behind the image - I haven't got a garden, so I went to the local darkish site with my wife. I tried to find Andromeda for about 30 minutes with no success, but just as I was about to give up I got lucky! I can't believe I have got so many favs. Thank you all!!
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Canon 650d (mod)
Samyang 135mm f/2.8
Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Lights - 25X15 seconds
Darks - 15
F/2.0
ISO 800
White balance - auto
Post processing - Siril, Gimp, Topaz DeNoise AI
Skywatcher ED80 x 0.85
Canon 1100d modificada + L Pro filter
Mont AVX
230 shot HDR composition 26/27 -9-2019
ISO 800
Dark/Bias/Flat
Pix 1.8 and PS
Finally processed my M31 the last new moon. I don't normally do much in RGB, but the consecutive moonless and dark nights were too much of an opportunity. The image is stacked up of around 6 hours of data.
RGB 30x180seconds per channel
HEQ6 Pro
ASIair
APM Lomo 80/480 @370mm
ZWO 1600mm pro
Realistically, this is one of most distant object you can see with your naked eye (at least in the northern hemisphere) at a little over 2 million light years away, so the light hitting my camera sensor left the galaxy when the first humans were starting to come into existence (Homo Ergaster).
What baffles me is that the light on the far side of the galaxy is some 200,000 years behind the light at the front of the galaxy, so my image is effectively skewed by time. The whole thing is moving towards us at a rate of arouns 60 miles per second.31 Andromeda Galaxy data
- Mass Effect: Andromeda
- Camera tools by Hattiwatti
- Post processing done in Reshade and Photoshop
- Hotsampling using SRWE
I am to ashamed to say the amount of work that I put into this one.
First time I encounter this composition my game crashed because of a stupid shader I am working on. I couldn't get peebee to be in that place again no matter how many times I went away and enter that zone again.
But after finishing the game I managed to reload an old save in which I could try one last time before I deleted the game. And I shit you not the character was exactly in the place I wanted her to be.
Apparently it had something to do with that being the first time you entered the place, so thats why I couldn't get her to stand in there again.
Anyway hope you like these last andromeda shots, here is a before and after with a shot I took without reshade nor photoshop (not exactly the same but was one of the iterations I made)
This is my first image with my new TMB-92 telescope. I performed 90% of the processing of this image for the first time in pixinsight. I'm impressed with the capabilities of this software.
After some tips from fellow astrophotographers I made a complete reprocessing which is in my opinion much better than the previous one.
Telescope: TMB-92
Camera: QSI-583ws
Mount: NEQ-6 with OAG
Exposures:
19x300s L
3x300s B
9x300s R,G
9x900s Ha
Total: 5,6 hours
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Teleobjektiv 4/500; 120min Belichtungsteit, ISO 400; Autoguiding, Standort Witten (light pollution ratio 4,8; Bortle Cl. 5)
Siril, LR; lange Seite: Crop 1,5
Andromeda Galaxie M31/Nachbar zur Milchstraße, 2,5 Mio Lichtjahre entfernt;
rechts NGC205 (Begleitgalaxie), links M32 (Begleitgalaxie), unten im Spiralarm, blau: NGC206 (Haufen junger Sterne)
looking at the sky with a camera and 500mm lens ....
Telephoto lens 4/500; 120min exposure time, ISO 400; autoguiding, location Witten (light pollution (ratio 4.8; Bortle Cl. 5)
Siril, LR; long side: crop 1.5
Andromeda galaxy M31/neighbour to the Milky Way, 2.5 million light years away;
right NGC205 (companion galaxy), left M32 (companion galaxy), below in the spiral arm, blue: NGC206 (cluster of young stars)
Messier 31, The Andromeda Galaxy
15 x 5 min ISO 800 lights + dark,flats & bias.
Skywatcher 130pds
Modded Canon 1000d
CLS clip filter
R.O.G. operated 37608 is seen approaching the A19 bridge near Burn with 5Q18 Wembley Inter City Depot to Gascoigne Wood sidings, conveying Alstom units 730228 + 730229 for store.
Taken during the New year's night under the dark skies of Moyuta, Guatemala.
I was excited to try a broadband target after being limited to emission nebulae for a while under the Bortle 9 skies of Lisbon. Even though the skies were clear, the mist was was so dense that the lens would get foggy after 10 minutes of leaving it outside so I had to constantly clean the front element. Considering that, I'm very satisfied with the result.
Tecnhical information
Canon 400mm f/5,6 lens @ f/5.6
Skywatcher Star adventurer 2i tracking mount
55x60s ISO 1600
Stock EOS R
Processing was done in Affinity photo, Siril, Lightroom Classic and VanceAI denoiser.
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I could test the new Askar telescope with 5,5 hours on Andromeda :-) Very happy with it :-)
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Mount: SkyWatcher HEQ5 Pro
Guiding: ZWO ASI 120MM Mini USB 2.0 Mono Camera - Orion 50mm Guide Scope
Filter: Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C Clip-Filter
Camera: Canon EOS 70D (full spectrum modified)
Askar 80 PHQ F7.5 Quadruplet Astrograph Telescope
Focal length: 600mm
Astronomik CLS CCD Clip Filter
110 x 180 seconds frames - ISO 800 - f7.5
5 1/2hr total Integration
Darks: 20 frames
Flats: 20 frames
Bios: 20 frames
DarkFlats: 20 frames
Bortle 5/6
Apps: N.I.N.A. > PHD2 > ASCOM
Processing: PixInsight > Photoshop >Topaz > Photoshop
K-3III and a regular tripod. Telephoto end of 16-50mm F2.8 lens on a 1.4x telecon because that was the best thing that was available. Ended up getting 192 pictures, each being 20 seconds. These pictures were combined in post processing.
- Mass Effect: Andromeda
- Camera tools by Hattiwatti
- Post processing done in Reshade and Photoshop
- Hotsampling using SRWE
Just started Andromeda the other day and it looks really well. Plus the 10 minutes I wasn't taking shots were quite fun lol. Looking forward to shotting more.
Andromeda
music Nicolò Zingarelli, director Roberto Recchia, set design and project of visual Roberta Spegne
Teatro Titano, San Marino
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My first reasonable attempt in Astrophotography I can actually present...
Andromeda Galaxy - is spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda, It is our nearest large galaxy - about 2.5 mil. light years from earth and one of the few visible to the naked eye - you can see it as a little milky blur.
Nikon D750, 10x120s stacked in DSS, ISO2500, 155mm, f5.6, Skywatcher star Adventurer.
this old galactic friend is up early in the morning during the summer- rising after midnight in the northern sky. (I've spotted it overhead during the winter).
60 x 59 seconds with Canon 600d on a WO Zenithstar 73. Darks, biases, flats 40 each under Bortle 4, East Wittering, UK.
With the Milky Way now on it's final journey over the horizon for the year, it's time to start looking at other targets in the night sky.
Captured in this panorama is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Milky Way (MW), Andromeda (M31) and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33), the faint blob on the far right :) there's many more in here but my knowledge of the night sky doesn't extend that far.
There's also a strong display of Zodiacal Light, was pretty bright for a few hours!
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula (see below), is a barred spiral galaxy with diameter of about 220,000 ly approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way. The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which itself is named after the Ethiopian (or Phoenician) princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology. The virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at 1 trillion solar masses. The mass of either galaxy is difficult to estimate with any accuracy, but it was long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy is more massive than the Milky Way by a margin of some 25% to 50%. The Andromeda Galaxy has a diameter of about 220,000 ly, making it the largest member of the Local Group in terms of extension. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in around 4-5 billion years, merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy or a large lenticular galaxy. With an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda Galaxy is among the brightest of the Messier objects, making it visible to the naked eye from Earth on moonless nights, even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution.
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