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My first somewhat decent photograph of a galaxy.
I struggled in many ways to capture this. First was my light-polluted location of a NYC suburb, plus in my excitement of clear skies, I forgot to use my light pollution filter. The night before I shorted out my dew zapper controller so this night I had to make do with hand warmers attached to my lens. It literally took me hours to find the galaxy in my 560mm focal view. It's so frustrating trying to blindly navigate the night sky. The resulting stacked photograph had a huge magenta color cast on half the image. I will continue to practice astrophotography so I am prepared for a more suitable location.
46 images stacked with Nebulosity. 560mm, f8, iso 400, 90s.
Dark, flat, and bias frames were also used in the processing.
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest major 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.
The mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at 1 trillion solar masses and it has a diameter of about 220,000 light years.
The number of stars contained in the Andromeda Galaxy is estimated at one trillion, or roughly twice the number estimated for the Milky Way.
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.
Also visible in this shot are two satellite dwarf galaxies, M32 and M110 (the two other fuzzy star formations to the left and just below Andromeda).
ASI 2600MC Pro cooled to -10degC. William Optics GT 81, Flat 6AIII, ASIAir Pro, HEQ5 Pro guided, ZWO EAF, Optolong L-Pro filter, 50 x 180s lights, 20 x 60s lights, 80 flats, 80 dark flats. Bortle 3-4 skies.
Stacked in DSS and processed in PS and LR.
Drive the image in the direction YOU want. The way you enjoy YOUR picture the most.
I spent a long time (several years) catering my images to others and the way objects are "supposed" to look.
You have permission to process your images, your data you worked so hard to collect, in whichever way you want.
Some may not like it - but who are you doing this for?
M31, The Andromeda Galaxy, needs no introduction. Probably the most commonly imaged galaxy out there, but more beautiful than any. Home of an estimated trillion stars, large blue star forming regions which give off so much energy causing the Hydrogen gas clouds they were formed from to glow red.
I waited for two years to image this galaxy, waiting for the perfect combination of clear skies, no moon, and decent seeing. That came Nov.7/8. I dedicated one night to Ha and the following night to LRGB before the weather turned again.
I then spent several days off and on processing over and over again to do this beautiful galaxy the justice it deserved. I wanted to emphasize 4 items from my processing and I am hoping I hit them. I wanted to emphasize overall galactic structure, new star formations (blue), Red brilliant Ha regions, and dark dust structure.
Imaging telescope: SkyWatcher Esprit 80ED Super APO Triplet
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Dates:Nov. 7, 2020 , Nov. 8, 2020
Frames:
Optolong B 36mm: 30x120" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong G 36mm: 34x120" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
Antlia Ha 3.5nm 36mm: 43x600" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong L 36mm: 90x120" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
Optolong R 36mm: 32x120" (gain: 139.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 13.4 hours
- Mass Effect: Andromeda
- Camera tools by Hattiwatti
- Post processing done in Reshade and Photoshop
- Hotsampling using SRWE
Might not be my strongest composition but I really dig the colors in this one. LUT stacking FTW.
This is a re-edit from data I photographed in 2013.
For original look here: www.flickr.com/photos/astro-tanja/9776984696/
A year has passed and my Pix Insight editing techniques improved slightly.
Image details:
105min (21x 300sec) @ISO800
Image acquired over 2 nights, 2 locations
2 September 2013, Iowa (11x 300sec)
5 September 2013, Nevada (10x300sec)
Image setup:
Officina Stellare HiperAPO105
Canon 60Da
Celestron Advanced VX
Guiding: SSAG & PHD
Acquisition: Nebulosity
Processing: PixInsight and PhotoShop
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.
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
Camera – Fujifilm X-T20.
Lens – Jupiter 37A.
Mount – Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Mini.
ISO – 3200.
Stack of 108 lights 30" each.
30 darks.
30 biases.
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Stacking in DeepSkyStacker.
Editing in SiriL and Adobe Photoshop.
Andromeda Galaxy -- taken September 23, 2022
Nikon D850
Svbony 503 OTA w 0.8X field flattner
about 40 of 30 sec exposures;
stacked with Sequetor
TIFF edited with photoshop.
9-23-22_AG-D850-OTA
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The Andromeda Galaxy
I was very interested to make another picture of the Andromeda Galaxy after my last quick attempt were I was admittedly just beginning to find my feet on this well photographed night sky target. Here is my second attempt at the Andromeda Galaxy, and in this one a much closer view than I have shown before. Learning all the time, and being very interested in for the most part, realism of the night sky (including colour accuracy) I processed this to try and show the natural colour of Andromeda. The final result is admittedly subdued compared with typical images we see of the Andromeda Galaxy. Often many of the images we see online of this target involve usage of things like colour balance tools, overuse of saturation and selective colour in photoshop (there are other culprates which mangle natural colour also). I have avoided using any of these tools and processed with a carefully colour managed workflow. Why have I done this? I think there are too many false colour images of the night sky out there and I believe that the universe deserves a chance to be represented a bit more accurately. Everyone will have their own opinion on this and are free to do what they wish with their own images. Is this image perfect? Of course not. Like everyone I continue to learn day by day...
If you look carefully into this one, you can observe hints of the the irregularly shaped faint halo extending well beyond the elliptical galaxy. NASA has already confirmed this extends out a phenomenal distance from the galaxy. We see it here as a glow around Andromeda. The smaller 'fuzzy' satellite galaxy below Andromeda in this image, called NGC 205, is warping the outer disc of Andromeda (I checked this from a NASA scientific paper!). In this picture we can almost faintly see the tidal gravitiational force acting between them via the faint glow seen.
Image taken in my backyard in Perthshire, Scotland.
Explored on Flickr 1st February 2023.
Decided to bust out the old telescope last night and do some deep space imaging, been a while since I used it and my bigger mount. Of course I'm on call at work which means I can't travel far, have to stay within cell range and be able to get in to work within an hour. So I headed up to my fallback shooting location, Rockport Reservoir. Got up there, spent an hour setting everything up, went to start up my tablet and begin alignment and then I noticed...I was missing the bluetooth dongle for my wireless keyboard and mouse. The stupid tablet touchscreen keyboard won't allow you to use specific key commands in combination, commands I need to do the alignment and get my target in the field of view. So I spent another hour looking for the dongle, realizing it wasn't going to be found, and trying everything I knew to get the alignment to work. No dice, almost decided to pack it up, but instead I did the sharpcap polar alignment and decided to give doing a fully manual mount alignment using a laser pointer. Chose Andromeda because I could actually see it, used the laser pointer and nailed the alignment first try. I just laughed when the first image popped up on the tablet.
I wasted so much time with all that crap so I only got about 100 minutes worth of data. This is stack of 16 exposures, each 7 minutes at ISO 800 with my Nikon D7000 and Astrotech AT65EDQ on a Sirius EQ-G tracking mount. Not the best, but given all the crap I had to go through to get it....I'll take it.
2024-10-27
Harney, MD
This is my first attempt to use two panels to capture a celestial object. I used Photometric Mosaic to merge the panels in Pixinsight.
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC
Guide Camera: QHY5III462
Telescope: Vixen ED80SF f/7.5
Mount: Losmandy G11
Integration:
107x120s (3.56 hrs) Panel 1
92x120s (3.06 hrs) Panel 2
No filters
Capture: NINA
Processing: Pixinsight, Affinity
- Mass Effect: Andromeda
- Camera tools by Hattiwatti
- Post processing done in Reshade and Photoshop
- Hotsampling using SRWE
Canon 6D & Canon 70-200mm F/4L USM
Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i & Lacerta MGEN-II
47x60s ISO3200 F/7.1 15 dark 15 flat
2022 07 26 2:00-3:00
Data acquired from Telescope live. 25 light frames all in FITS files stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and then processed in photoshop. Here are two versions the one highlighting the outer edges more is processed in Lightroom mobile
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.
Total exposure: 4h 10m 0s
no.of frames - 25
Well, this is not great but the best I've got so far of the Andromeda Galaxy. I was going to take about 10 exposures to stack and the first one hadn't even finished when the clouds rolled in. However, I tweaked it and stretched it and, for the first time for me, I can see the dust rings.
The Andromeda Galaxy (sometimes also known by the old name Great Andromeda Nebula or with the catalog names M 31 and NGC 224 ), is a giant spiral galaxy that is about 2.538 million light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation of Andromeda , from which it takes its name. This is the largest galaxy closest to ours, the Milky Way ; it is also visible to the naked eye and is among the most distant objects visible without the aid of tools.
The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest of the Local Group , a group of galaxies which also includes the Milky Way and the Triangle Galaxy , plus about fifty other minor galaxies, many of which are satellites of the major ones.
According to studies published in the 2000s , derived from the observations of the Spitzer Space Telescope , it would contain about one billion stars (one thousand billion), a number far greater than that of the Milky Way. However, there are conflicting opinions on the mass and number of stars: some studies indicate a mass value for the Milky Way equal to 80% of that of Andromeda, while according to others the two galaxies would have similar dimensions. However, some studies suggest that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and could thus be the one with the largest mass.
With an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda Galaxy is one of the brightest objects in Messier's catalog
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Dates: 7 August, 11-13-14 September 2020
Telescope: William Optics GT-81 with 6AIII Flattener / 0.8x reducer (382 mm focal length)
Mount: Celestron CGEM-DX
Imaging Camera: ASI1600MM-Cool
Guidescope: Omegon 60mm / 240mm FL
Guide Camera: ASI290MM
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Baader UV/IR Cut - 300 x 60 sec
Baader Red 82 x 90 sec
Baader Green 80 x 90 sec
Baader Blue 80 x 90 sec
Baader H-alpha 140 x 120 sec
Total Integration Time: 15:43 Hours
Taken from my backyard (Bortle 7)
86 lights, 24 darks, ca. 1h integration time.
Camera: Canon 550D (stock), Mount: Star Adventurer.
Finally I got some hours of clear skies last night and I was able to get my Star Adventurer to work after having some difficulties in the past. I was waiting to shoot Andromeda with my TS72 which I bought a year ago and had no opportunity to shoot M31 since then. I am quite happy with the result. I will try to collect more lights and I will update this image when I have more data.
La Grande Nébuleuse Andromède
51x120sec
800 Iso
Lunette TS triplet 80/480
Canon 450D défiltré
Correcteur/réducteur WO x0.8
Filtre CLS
EQ6
- Mass Effect: Andromeda
- Camera tools by Hattiwatti
- Post processing done in Reshade and Photoshop
- Hotsampling using SRWE
Taken at Clark Botanic Garden is a 12-acre botanical garden and park located in Roslyn Heights, in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.
Pieris japonica, the Japanese andromeda or Japanese pieris, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae. It is native to eastern China, Taiwan, and Japan, where it grows in mountain thickets. This medium-sized evergreen shrub or tree is widely cultivated in gardens.
Around 120, tracked, 60 second exposures of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in Adobe Photoshop.
Still very much a beginner at astrophotography, and honestly, it's the hardest thing I've ever done in photography.
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
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.