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M31 is our closest galaxy, and along with it's two satellite galaxies, is roughly 2.5 million light years away.
24 x 5min exposures with dark calibration live stacked with ZWO Asiair Pro, using an Esprit 80ED refractor and ASI294MC Pro at -10degC, Gain 120, L2 UV IR cut filter. Guided on a Celestron CGX, taken from Dromochter, Scotland. Bortle 2.
While shooting some timelapse sequences I was rewarded with a powerful blast of green aurora straight above my head. I shot this image towards the constellation Cassiopeia and our neighboring galaxy Andromeda which is visible beneath the center of this image. I shot this image with Canon 5d2 and Canon 16-35 f/2.8 MK2 at 3200 iso/25 sec exposure, f/2.8
Andromeda Galaxy / Galaxia de Andromeda (M31, Messier 31, NGC 224)
The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy with approximately 1 billion stars and is located at a distance from the earth of 2.5 million light-years. It is the farthest object visible to the naked eye from Earth.
La galaxia de Andrómeda es una galaxia espiral con aproximadamente 100.000 millones estrellas y se encuentra a una distancia de la tierra de 2,5 millones de años luz. Es el objeto celeste visible a simple vista más lejano de la Tierra.
- Date/Fecha: 19/08/2020
- Location/Lugar: Piedrafita de Jaca - Huesca (42°42'4.4"N 0°19'52.6"W)
GEAR/EQUIPO
- Tracker/Montura Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi
- Guiding with QHY 5L-II Mono and guidescope EZG-60
- Camera Sony ILC3-A7M3 APS-C Mode
- Lens Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
IMAGE/IMAGEN:
- 22 Lights at 900mm, ISO 10000, 120seg, f6.3
- 5 Darks at ISO 10000, 120seg, f6.3
- Total time of exposition/Tiempo total de exposición 44min. 20seg.
SOFTWARE
- Stellarium Scope & Stellarium to guide the tracker
- Stacked with DeepSkyStacker
- Guiding with PHD2
- Image viewer Adobe Bridge
- Image processing with Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop CC
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I had kinda been forgetting about this one. It's basically a giant flying cigar-shaped aircraft carrier capable of carrying three saucers; a Haunebu II and two Vril disks. Hasn't anyone heard of all the tons of reports over the years of cigar-shaped UFOs with other smaller UFOs often coming out of them or hanging around them? That's this. And I'm pretty sure the extraterrestrials don't use anything like this due to the fact that they have ships in orbit. I could be wrong about that though, possibly.
Decided to give this data another go-through, wasn't entirely happy with the original edit I did, think this one turned out much better.
222x600 ISO 800
Self modified Canon 60d Astronomik L2 luminance
Stellarvue SVX 102T-R F7
Losmandy G11
Started out as a project debugging the mount electronics and ended up with 37 hours of data.
Too much data for a DSLR with 10 minute subs, but no noise reduction was needed
the target really needed a reducer/flattener
La Galassia di Andromeda …
Distante poco più di due milioni e mezzo di anni luce dalla terra , visibile in direzione della costellazione di Andromeda , si stima che ospiti circa mille miliardi di stelle ..
Integrazione di 45 light del 16 settembre a Siddi occasione dello Sky party dell ultimo minuto , con gli Amici Stefano pia , Emanuele Atzeni , Francesco Secchi e Matteo Manca ,
.. ai successivi 150 light x 120” , 30 Flat , 39 dark flat , 30 dark del 18/19 settembre 2022 , rifrattore takahashi FS60cb F6.2 .. cam Asi2600 mc , guida con 60/240 Asi290mm , montatura ZWO AM5.. optolong L_Nanche per i primi 45 light , nessun filtro per i restanti
Elaborazioni con Pixinsignt , Lightroom
Spero sia di vostro gradimento!! Cieli sereni. astrob.in/0fxs40/0/
Nikon D7200 & Nikkor-Q 135mm F/2.8
Omegon Minitrack LX2
40 x 13 sec
40 Dark 60 Bias
ISO 2000
F/2.8
Softwares: Photoshop (Astropanel 5 + OrionX plugin)
Location: Bagod, Hungary
The Andromeda Galaxy or Andromeda Nebula (M31) is a spiral galaxy, located in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy has the same shape as our own galaxy, the Milky Way, but is a lot bigger. The distance is estimated at about 2.54 million light years, the diameter about 250,000 light years (Wikipedia).
Het Andromedastelsel of de Andromedanevel (M31) is een spiraalvormig sterrenstelsel, in het sterrenbeeld Andromeda. Het stelsel heeft dezelfde vorm als ons eigen sterrenstelsel, de Melkweg, maar is wel een stuk groter. De afstand wordt geschat op ongeveer 2,54 miljoen lichtjaar, de diameter ca. 250.000 lichtjaar (Wikipedia).
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
(plus bonus satellite galaxies M32 and M110)
Taken with Canon DSLR & 100-400mm lens
My previous post of Andromeda was lacking somewhat in both quality and detail. It was basically a quick snap uploaded out of pure excitement. Excitement that I could actually photograph a deep space object from my back garden in Central Scotland using a normal DSLR and lens.
Fast forward 7 weeks and with very sore legs after a very tough climb up a very steep learning curve, I am proud to present my current version. Whilst this may not be perfect, it is astronomically (forgive the pun) superior in terms of quality and control. It is currently around 52 megapixels in size and shows no significant deterioration in quality even at 100% scrutiny.
It is a milestone for me in terms of Astro photography and I will always consider it my first true astro image.
For anyone interested, I’ll list some accompanying information alongside each astro image giving some basic laymen facts regards the subject.
My Andromeda Facts...
We live on a very small planet which along with another handful of planets (and moons), rotate around our very own star which we call the sun.
We class all this as our Solar System.
Our Solar System exists within a larger collection of objects, a galaxy called The Milky Way.
There are estimated to be another 200 billion stars (suns) in The Milky Way, many of which will have numerous planets rotating around them just like our very own solar system.
In the visible universe there is estimated to be around 100 billion other galaxies in addition to our Milky Way.
If your with me so far (not even sure I’m with myself), that is 100 billion multiplied by 200 billion to give us the total number of stars (suns) in the visible universe, most of which will have planets whizzing around them just like us.
If my calculations – read calculator- are correct, I’d say that’s somewhere in the region of 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or twenty sextillion other stars.
Andromeda is also the closed galaxy to our own Milky Way but when they say close, I suppose it’s all relative. Think of it like this, light can travel around the world 7.5 times per second. At that speed it would only take it 2.5 million years to reach Andromeda.
The only reason we can see Andromeda when it is so far away is because of its vast size, it is around 200,000 light years across. Remember, light is so fast it goes round our earth 7.5 times a second, imagine how big Andromeda is if it takes light 200,000 years to travel it’s length.
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are currently on a collision course at a crazy closing speed of 70 miles per second. This may seem alarming at first but when you realise it will take around 4 billion years before impact it doesn’t feel quite as bad.
On a more positive note, it is not something we will ever have to worry about as long before the collision our very own sun will eradicate all life on earth before eventually turning into a red giant and engulfing the earth in full.
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20 x 2-minute ISO 3200 exposures (taken last night) and 7 x 7-minute ISO 1600 exposures (taken 8 August 2015). Astro-modified Canon 600D and Sky-Watcher ED 80mm f/6.25 telescope, piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for manual guiding.
Frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker software. Result post-processed to increase contrast, reduce noise and adjust overall colour balance. I also used Noel Carboni's astronomy tools in Photoshop Elements to reduce the prominence of the stars (which otherwise dominate after stretching the contrast).
2.5 million light years away.
Rare new moon, no clouds night!
99x2min exposures stacked in PixInsight
Camera: ASI2600 MC Pro
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED102-FCD100 (4" Refractor)
The great Andromeda Galaxy M31 in messier catalog
This is a 4 panel mosaic capture during two cold nights.
Starless version : flic.kr/p/2mDSYEG
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ5
Filter: Astronomik L
-Acquisition-
Light :Panel-1 60x300s
Panel-2 60x300s
Panel-3 52x300s
Panel-4 60x300s
Dark-100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
Date : Take on 2 night 05 September2021
and 10 October 2021
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
-Software-
Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Build the 4 panel mozaic
It's my first 4 panel mosaic so I follow this tutorial from Amy Astro www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0f8Tl_kC0A
-Processing
DBE master Light
Split L,R,G,B layer from Master light
__L__
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Denoise
Ez_Soft Streatch
Ez_HDR
UnsharpedMask with mask
__RGB__
Linear Fit
BackgroundNeutralization
PhotometricColorCalibration
Ez_Soft Streatch
Starnet++
CuvesTransformation with mask
A lot of curves...
Bring back stars with PixelMath
__LRGB__
LRGBCombination
Final CurvesTransformation
Ez_Star Reduction
DarkStructureEnhance script
Save as jpg
Clear Skies !
Scope: Orion Optics VX6 with 1/10 PV upgraded optics
Guide Scope: Skywatcher ST80
Guide Cam: QHY 5 Mono
Mount: Skywatcher HQE5
Camera: Nikon D5100 Modded
Exposure: 18x5 Minute Subs, Darks, Bias & Flats
Technical: 750mm f/5
Software: DSS, Pixinsight, PHD, Nebulosity
This huge Andromeda bush opened its flowers a couple of weeks ago and I was dismayed that the weather stayed rainy and very cool so the bees had not emerged. Usually they would cover the bush for days and days but for over a week, no bees. Finally, it has warmed up over the last couple of days, the honey bees and bumble bees have come alive, and all is right in this little world,
Visible on the right our neighboring galaxy Andromeda aka Messier 31, M31 or NGC 224 at a distance of 2.5 million light years.
Our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to colide in around 4.5 billion years!
Shot with the help of Sightron Nano Tracker
It's taken the light photons from this galaxy 2.5 million years to reach my back garden – I'm just glad I was there to catch them.
I finally had a (relatively) clear sky on Sunday after weeks of endless cloud. Seeing conditions were pretty poor with high cloud and the occasional aeroplane!! I've found a solution to my laptop power issue and so I've been able to take many more photos than previously – until the clouds rolled in. My alignment is much better than my previous effort at this amazing galaxy but I still need to find the optimal distance of the camera sensor/field flattener in relation to the focal plane. A few more clear nights would help me fine tune this.
40 x 120s exposures (of which 32 were usable) with Darks. No Flats or Bias frames.
Untracked
Teleskop Service 80/480 APO Triplet Telescope
Canon 1000D modded camera with Astronomik CLS Filter
Stacked using Nebulosity
Processed using Photoshop CC
M31 Andromeda galaxy
166 frames, 1hr 23minutes total exposure
Pentax K5 on Skywatcher Evostar 80ED DS-Pro
SW 0.85x Focal Reducer/Flattener
HEQ5Pro unguided
Variable ISO
10xDarks
12xFlats
More frames added.. and some sattelite;)
It's that time of year again and I can't resist getting another session on Andromeda.
This time with LRGB filters and guided tracking giving less bloaty stars (and better colours!) than the last effort (flic.kr/p/2mA5eTe) which was unguided and there is also more space (literally!) around the galaxy. I'd like to get more data to make those outer arms sing a bit more.
Date: 30 Aug 2022
Equipment: Redcat 51, ASI1600MM mono cooled camera with LRGB filters, ZWO EAF, iOptron GEM28 guided.
16 x 300s each of LRGB at -15degC, 120 gain, processed in APP, StarTools and Gimp.
I was just fooling around with a simple new layer mode called "Average". It takes two layers, adds 'em together, divides by two and that's the result. The math is done in 16-bits, so there's no loss per channel. You can stack a warp layer with arbitrary rotation in it in between the two, and of course you can shift the layers x:y as well, all of which means you can line up the images perfectly if they were taken from the same position.
This is actually a composite of a 4-second exposure and a 6-second exposure, plus levels to push the grunge down even further. It cuts the random noise down by about half, which isn't bad for about ten minutes work with the compiler and a new, general purpose layer mode. ;-)
More technically: The idea - which is obvious, I admit - is that if there is a random noise speckle at position x:y, then because it is random, it won't be there in the next frame. So let's say it has a value of 5 in one frame and zero in the next. well, 5+0 is 5, and 5/2 is 2.5 which truncates (conveniently) so you actually end up with 2. Viola - noise is cut in half. Now, where there is a legitimate brightness of say, 50, it is 50 in both images, and 50+50 is 100, 100/2 = 50, and you get what you expect, unchanged. But let's say that there was the same degree of noise on one of those 50's. So one is 50, the other 55. 50+55 is 105, 105/2 is 52.5, truncates to 52... again, noise is 1/2 of what it would have been and result is closer to the 50 it should have been. What if the noise is a step down? ok, numbers are then 45 and 50. 45+50 is 95, 95/2 is 47.5, truncates to 47, result is 47 instead of 45, still better and still converging towards 50, where it belongs. But since the most objectionable noise is noise raised above the black level, truncation is the best choice so as to force the lowest level noise down towards channel zero level. Plus - because of how camera sensors work... there's more noise of various kinds towards zero than anywhere else. So it's good to step on the low-level stuff.
What I really need to do is write a specific program for the Mac to do this. If I feed it more than two images, I could use statistical methods to throw out noisy samples, or just create large input averages (10 images summed over 10) that would reduce any one noise input to 10% of its original value, or by whatever proportional number of images you fed it. All that requires is wrapping my head around XCode 3's new paradigm for object-oriented annoyance. Sigh. Not today.
Both shots were taken with my Canon EOS 40D, various settings.
Taken at Astrocamp September 2014 in Brecon Beacon, Wales.
This was my most desired object that I wanted to capture ever since I started imaging. I finally learnt to polar align my equatorial mount and in the darkest skies of Brecon Beacon, Wales, I have finally fulfilled my dream in capturing this magnificent Celestial being that is 2.5 million light years away.
My next steps are to now learn the secrets of post processing to bring out the true colours and contrast of deep space imaging but for now, I am satisfied with my progress.
22 X 60 sec exposures = 22mins total integration ime
5 Dark calibration frames
30 Bias calibration frames
ISO 6400
Camera: Canon 650D
Mount: HEQ5 Pro Synscan
Telescope: Skywatcher Equinox 80 APO refractor
No Filters
Location: Brecon Beacons
Seeing: Very good, milky way on show
Date: 23rd September 2014
File: Andromeda dss stacked iso 6400 60 secs photoshopped 2