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Interstellar Haze around M31, Todd Stephens
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Interstellar Haze around M31

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Interstellar Haze around M31

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Hooked up my trusty old iExos-100 with modded Canon 600D and Rokinon 135mm f/2 lens to shoot some data on M31 while I was working on another target with my CEM40. Reminded me how enjoyable it was to use the simple grab-and-go portable widefield setup.

I shot this over three nights with an increasingly darker moon. 120-second subs at ISO 800, guided and dithered every three frames by PHD2 via astroberry server. Calibrated, stacked, and gradients removed in Astro Pixel Processor with final processing in PixInsight. As far as IFN goes, this stuff is really dim and hard to see through the starfield!

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Interstellar Haze around M31, Todd Stephens