Messier 31 - yet another one! (Simon)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Andromeda (And) · Contains: Great Nebula in Andromeda · HD3765 · HD3969 · HD4143 · HD4174 · HD4322 · HD4501 · M 110 · M 31 · M 32 · NGC 205 · NGC 206 · NGC 221 · NGC 224

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Messier 31 - yet another one!

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I seem to be stuck on the letter 'A' at the moment, with all the Andromeda galaxy processing I have been doing lately! But, there is a limit to what I can take from here, and besides I keep wanting to use my Nikon D800 through the 8" reflector at the moment, which I have not really done before. I managed 65 subs of this at 5 minutes long each, at ISO 1000. The earliest subs were all in my worst LP zone, and then the moon rose, and so one way or another the subs are either very white or very blue, showing little detail! The vignetting was astonishingly bad because of the ratio of the full size sensor in the camera, relative to the scope. Somehow, I managed to process it without cropping it - which was my intention because I really like the FOV with this. Anyway, I am pleased with how it turned out, especially as I have managed to bring out some of the faint stuff... Integration time was 5 hours 25 minutes...

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	2934166
PixInsight job	L8OSYJB6112DPK8MILGOEGJLQWMPWK6X
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	00h43m03s.85
RA (top/left)	00h46m10s.80
RA (top/right)	00h48m42s.83
RA (bottom/right)	00h39m48s.60
RA (bottom/left)	00h37m35s.29

Dec (center)	+41°09′10″.9
Dec (top/left)	+39°46′02″.4
Dec (top/right)	+42°13′40″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°32′00″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°03′43″.3

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