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this cabin/house may have been built in the 1890's, it has seen many nights like this. 5 years ago the lean-to was still intact.
A moment after this capture the moon started rising. You can see the light in the bottom of the picture. Despite that the camera caught quite many stars. And the camera also captured what must be the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light years from earth...
Perseids meteors, the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, the California Nebula and the Pleiades Nebula all visible in the early morning hours over Toadstool Geological Park in northwestern Nebraska. The Perseids meteor shower occurs once a year in August and is associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle. The meteors are called the Perseids because the radiant point from which they appear lies in the constellation Perseus. During peak nights between thirty and sixty meteors can occur each hour.
Object: The Andromeda Galaxy – M31 (Oct. 2018)
(Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224)
The 4th and last time I am doing this target. I was visiting an old friend in Nova Scotia and I needed to come up with a wideband target quickly and M31 won out.
A large spiral galaxy in our “local group” of galaxies named for the mythological princess Andromeda and located in the constellation of the same name. The galaxy is estimated to be 2.5 million light years distant and is estimated to be 220,000 light years across with a halo weighing in at 1.23 trillion solar masses containing over a trillion suns within its boundaries. Interesting to note that while the light from the near side of M31 takes 2.5 million years to reach us, the light from the far side takes 220,000 more years to reach us which is longer than humans have existed on earth.
Acquisition Date: October 8th to October 14th 2018 Chester, Nova Scotia
- Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII at f/5
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100
- Camera: Starlight Xpress Trius SX-46 (-20°C)
- Guiding: Starlight Xpress Maxi filterwheel OAG
- Guide camera: Starlight -Xpress Lodestar X2 mono
Filters:
Astrodon Gen II E Filters
Luminance: 25 x 300sec (125 min)
Red: 16 x 300sec (80 min)
Green: 14 x 300sec (70 min)
Blue: 20 x 300sec (100 min)
Total: 375 min (6.25 hours)
First go with a fast prime Sigma 24 mm f1.4 ART lens on one of rare clear August nights. Bath light pollution and the Moon rising didn’t help clarity. Still more stars than one may count. Lansdown, Bath, BANES, England UK
Taken in the garden. The images focused for the sky and for the flower pots were blended in PS both exposed at f1.6, 15s, ISO1600. Vertical panorama of 4 images. Bath, BANES, England UK
The Sir Bevil Grenville’s monument on a starry night under a watchful eye of Cassiopeia constellation and the Milky Way with the Andromeda galaxy can be seen close to the right edge. Part of the Cotswolds Way, a popular National trail, is passing the monument and following the battlefield waymarkers that show where the Battle of Lansdowne took place in 1643. Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument was erected in 1720 on Lansdown to commemorate the heroism of the Civil War Royalist commander Sir Bevil Grenville who was mortally wounded at this battle on 5 July 1643. Cotswold Way Lansdown, Bath, Somerset, UK.
What are the chances? While taking a series of astrophotos through a small telescope of the Andromeda Galaxy, I could see a plane heading towards the target and wondering if it would ruin the shot...Well, now I think what a great alignment...a plane a few kilometers high passing just in front of a galaxy more than 2 million light years away...
Image details:
Scope: Orion 80 mm/f 6.25 ED refractor and Skywatcher 80 mm guide scope with Synguider standalone guider camera
Camera: EOS 20Da
Mount: Vixen Sphinx
Using Deep Sky Stacker (60 x 42 seconds) + 20d dark - I came across a UFO in one of the 60 shots. It was not in any of the other 59 shots - i'm thinking warp in the time space continuum.
The Milky Way over the “Alien Throne” hoodoo sandstone rock formation in the Valley of Dreams in the Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area, New Mexico. You can see the Andromeda Galaxy in the lower left hand corner of the photo.
… through the lens on a clear night... well almost clear. Taken from back garden at home. Despite light pollution number of stars visible through the lens is astonishing. The Andromeda galaxy can be seen. Bath, BANES, England UK.
The Andromeda Galaxy also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula, is a 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 virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at a trillion solar masses.
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. 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.
(Wikipedia.org)
Equipment:
Celestron 9.25” 2350mm Edge-HD Telescope
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro Computerized GoTo Telescope Mount
Orion 50mm Helical Guide Scope & StarShoot AutoGuider
Celestron 9x50 Finder Scope
ZWO ASI294MC Pro Color Camera
Celestron .7 EdgeHD Reducer Lens
PHD2 Guiding Software
SharpCap Pro
Thank you for your comments.
Gemma
Dati: 39 x 300 sec a gain 5 e offset 25 a -10° c + 70 dark + 25 flat e darkflat
Filtro Astronomik UV/IR Block L2
Montatura: EQ6 pro
Ottica: Takahashi FSQ106
Sensore: QHY168C
Cam guida e tele: magzero mz5-m su Scopos 62/520
Software acquisizione: nina e phd2
Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop
This is M31 the Andromeda galaxy. At 2.5 million light years away it is the furthest object that can be easily seen by the naked eye and it's existence has been known for over a thousand years.
Now it is headed our way.
In about 4 billion years it will collide with our own Milky way to produce a new combined giant elliptical galaxy. Until then we can just enjoy the view.
This image was taken with a small (80mm) telescope about 10 feet from my back door. Want to know how it’s done? This is a good place to start - astrobackyard.com/beginner-astrophotography/
The Andromeda Galaxy is big and bright, visible to the naked eye under dark skies and photographically spectacular, especially when captured using telescopes with a wide field of view.
Telescope: Tele Vue 76mm Refractor with 0.8x Focal Reducer (383mm focal length)
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: iOptron iEQ45 Pro
Integration: 100 minutes each of RGB (20 x 5mins)
Software: PixInsight 1.8.8
I took another photo of my Andromeda Galaxy poster....this one came out much better! I edited out the wall so that it would look as close to the real thing as possible..but you can still see two thumbtacks at the top, LOL! ! I looked at this poster for several minutes before I went to bed last night... it is so cool....
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 (his estimated distance was more than half smaller than the present value but still large enough to put it well outside the extent of our own Milky Way Galaxy).
M31 is classified as a spiral galaxy with its galactic plane inclined about 13o to our line of sight, and it is therefore seen nearly edge-on. It has a number of smaller satellite galaxies, the most prominent of which are M32 (the bright, star-like concentration above and to the left of the nucleus) and M110, the more extended bright patch below and to the right of the nucleus). 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 3 billion years and maybe merge into a giant elliptical galaxy.
I can’t really know if E.T.’s home was the Andromeda Galaxy, but I can tell you that this galaxy is exceptional, either through a telescope or in deep sky photographs.
I wish you all health, happiness and clear skies!
Image Details:
Telescope: Orion EON 80/500 mm ED refractor with TS 0.79 Reducer/Corrector
Mount: Modified Vixen Sphinx (NexSXW)
Camera: Canon EOS 600Da
Light frames: 13 x 5 mins, ISO 800, Custom WB, no filter
Guiding: Skywatcher Evoguide 50/240 mm with Lacerta Mgen-3 autoguider
Date & Location: 13/10/2023 - Chalkidiki, Greece (Bortle 4)
Processing: PixInsight, Adobe Photoshop
We went seeking the Milky Way last night but found too much light around San Miguel and the Mission. We had to drive off in the country to J. Lohr Winery. It's hard to see in this small jpeg but the Andromeda Galaxy can be seen just above the tree, right of center.
Dati: 39 x 300 sec a gain 5 e offset 25 a -10° c + 70 dark + 25 flat e darkflat
Filtro Astronomik UV/IR Block L2
Montatura: EQ6 pro
Ottica: Takahashi FSQ106
Sensore: QHY168C
Cam guida e tele: magzero mz5-m su Scopos 62/520
Software acquisizione: nina e phd2
Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop
Andromeda Galaxy a.k.a. Messier 31
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Andromeda, the largest galaxy in the so-called Local Group of Galaxies to which our galaxy also belongs, is 2.5 million light-years away and can be seen (even with the naked eye) in the constellation Andromeda. As general information, Andromeda is about 1.5 times larger than the Milky Way, with a diameter of 220,000 light-years (compared to the Milky Way which is 120-140,000 light-years in diameter) and contains more than 2 times as many stars. Although the first mention of this celestial object dates from 960, the first to give a more detailed description was the German astronomer Simon Marius, in the 1600s.
It should also be mentioned that Andromeda and the Milky Way are approaching with about 100 miles per second, experts estimate that in about 3-4 billion years the 2 galaxies will collide and thus form a new giant galaxy.
Equipment and settings:
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
Telescope: Skywatcher Evostar 72/420 + 0.85 reducer
Camera: ASI 533MM Pro
Filters: Astrodon LRGB+Ha
Integration: 4h40'
Edit in Pixinsight.
Location: my Bortle 6+ backyard
Andromeda Galaxy (M31, M32 and M110.) Nikon D5300 Nikon 500mm Catadioptric Lens. 240 30 sec subs F8 ISO 640. Astrophotography tool, AstroPixelProcessor, LR, PS.
It is finished! I have been slowly trying to learn deep-space photography using my camera, a telephoto lens, and a star tracker. It is the most challenging type of photography that I have attempted, and the editing process on this photo nearly broke me...BUT...I got it done. This photo was taken last weekend on Sunday, September 1st into the early morning hours on Labor Day (Monday), September 2nd. This was taken a few miles northwest of Munising Michigan in the UP. This photo combines 66 minutes (33 images exposed for 2 minutes each) of exposure time. The long exposure time allows the faint galaxy light to be collected in the data captured. Photo was taken with a Nikon Z6iii, Tamron 150-600mm lens, & ioptron skyguider pro. 33 exposures set at 2 minutes long, ISO 3200, f/6.3, focal length 550mm.
(Explore # 230)
First go with a fast prime Sigma 24 mm f1.4 ART lens on one of rare clear August nights. Light pollution and the Moon rising didn’t help. Still more stars than one may count. The North-East arch of the Milky Way. Lansdown, Bath, BANES, England UK
The Andromeda galaxy, is the nearest neighbouring galaxy, to the milky way. Consisting of one trillion stars and 2.5 million light years distant, its immense gravity has the milky way locked in an irresistible pull toward its final destination, crashing into the Andromeda galaxy and being completely merged into the much bigger galaxy. M31 45 stack 20 sec iso 6400.
Nikon D5300
Nikkor 55-200mm (102mm)
EXIF: f/4.5 ISO800
36x13s
11xdarks
Tracked: MSM
Stacked/apilado: Sequator
Edited/editado: Lightroom
Berga, Catalunya, España
Conifers point to the heavens and the traces left by Perseid meteors crashing through the atmosphere over a meadow near the Mountain Research Station. The new moon made for a great dark sky this year, although a layer of clouds over Denver/ Boulder lit up the eastern sky more than I would have liked.
This is a compilation of a base photo with the northern part of the Milky Way cutting across the sky and the constellation Perseus toward the bottom, and 10 additional photos culled out of the 700+ I took (or more accurately, the camera took while I admired the sky) between 11 pm and 4 am, adjusted for Earth’s rotation. Amazingly 2 of the meteor traces were in the base photo. There were some beautifully bright shooting stars this night!
DESCRIPTION: My second attempt at photo of M31 Andromeda Galaxy with limited data and limited Photoshop skills :-) …. I looking forward your comments and tips. I would very appreciate your advise how to do better.
OBJECT: M31, Andromeda Galaxy, Constelation Andromeda, apparent magnitude 3,4, apparent dimension 3,2 x 1 arcdeg, FOV 4,1 x 2,7 arcdeg,
GEAR: Nikon Z7 Kolari Full Spectrum + Nikkor 500/5,6 PF, no filter, pixel scale 1,79 arcsec/px, tracking mount iOptron CEM60EC - 3 star alignment, no auto guiding, dew heater.
ACQUISITION: August 20, 2020, Struz, CZ, Exposure 300s, f 5,6, ISO 400, Interval 15 s, Lights 25x, Darks 24x, Bias 24x, Flats 30x. Total exposure time 125 min. Night, no clouds, breeze, 17 C, no Moon, light pollution - Bortle 5.
STACKING AND POST PROCESSING: AstroPixelProcessor (stacking, background neutralization, light pollution removal, calibrate background.), Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 (stretching, black and white point settings, dim stars, enhance DSO, space noise reduction, contrast setting and sharpening). No cropped image, image size 3840 x 2560 px.
A few nights back, while waiting for comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) to pop up, I thought I’d have a crack at capturing these two jewels of the northern sky: the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33).
Down here in the southern hemisphere, these two barely scrape the horizon, making it a real mission to snap a clear shot—especially in just one night. With them so low and the seeing being absolutely crook, this wide-field image wasn’t an easy get. But hey, when you’ve got the night sky calling, you’ve just gotta give it a go, no matter how tricky it is!
Sky
Nikon D5500
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
91 x 30s, f/2.8
Foreground
Nikon D550p
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
2.5s, f/8
A clear night full of stars over the Teton Mountains. Alta, Wyoming, USA, May 2024
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Andromeda was tracked from almost straight overhead until it set behind the Owens Valley Radio Observatory outside of Big Pine, CA. This image is a Deepscape, combining astrophotography techniques with astro-landscape techniques
Tech details: Sony A7IV, Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 at 150mm, f/2.8, ISO1600. Andromeda exposure times: 5hrs of 1 minute exposures with 1 hour each of 30s and 2 minute exposures for HDR blending. Full set of Darks, Biases, and Flats taken.
Foreground image taken during Blue Hour before sunrise after Andromeda set. Tracked on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer equatorial tracker. Stacked in Siril and processed and composited in Photoshop and Lightroom. Position and scale of Andromeda and OVRO are accurate
Timelapse video can be seen here: vimeo.com/776793213
My Friday night was spent setting up my scope and targeting the Andromeda Galaxy. It is the furthest object visible to the naked eye as it lies relatively close to us at only ~2.5 million light years from Earth.
Equipment:
SkyWatcher EQ6-R
Nikkor 500mm f/4 P AI-S at f/5.6
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
ZWO 30mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my front yard - Bortle 3
36 x 210" for 2 hours, 6 min, and 30 sec exposure time.
5 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bias frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
Lightroom
My Sony a7RIII and adapted Nikkor 500mm f/4 P AI-S were mounted on an ADM vixen rail and secured to the SkyWatcher EQ6-R mount. I polar aligned my mount using SharpCap Pro. The guide scope/camera was attached to the camera's hot shoe. I used PHD2 to autogude during the imaging session. DeepSkyStacker was used to combine all frames, and then I processed the TIFF file in Photoshop. I stretched the 32-bit file using Levels. I then made it a 16-bit file and continued to stretch the file in levels and curves. I used the color sampler tool and levels to do my best to help keep colors accurate. I then used my skillset, including some dodging & burning, and relied on Astronomy Tools Action Set and Topaz Denoise to give the image a polished look. I brought it into Lightroom to do final color corrections and add EXIF data.
This is the final image of my Moulton Barn Milky Way series. It is a 8 panel panorama showing the whole arch of Milky Way.
I addition to Milky Way, there are several deep sky objects visible. Examples are:
- North America Nebula (NGC 7000) on the upper left in the Milky Way arch
- Andromeda Galaxy (M31) on the left side, above the horizon, between the tree and Milky Way
As well visible are the green and red skyglow and, on the far right, light pollution from the nearby town of Jackson.
The barn was illuminated with low level lighting using two LED panels. As one of these panals was in the field of view when taking the left side of the image, it was removed for the second halve of the shots.
Astro-Modified Canon EOS 6D
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
8 images of 25s @ ISO6400
Stiched with PtGui
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