Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  Great Nebula in Andromeda  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224  ·  The star 32And  ·  The star νAnd
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M31 with old Sigma 80-200 film zoom, Tom Robbe
M31 with old Sigma 80-200 film zoom
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M31 with old Sigma 80-200 film zoom

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M31 with old Sigma 80-200 film zoom, Tom Robbe
M31 with old Sigma 80-200 film zoom
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M31 with old Sigma 80-200 film zoom

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I'm continuing to experiment with this old zoom lens; Sigma 80-200 f/3.5-4 for a Nikon film camera. Its proving to be sharp in the center, but suffers serious coma on the edges even stopped down to f5.6. I almost did not post this, because I'm a bit disappointed right now with this lens and this image. But upon looking at it again, I don't think its all that bad, especially if one ignores the edges which I cropped somewhat, but wanted the effect of M31 isolated in a wider field of stars than is usually presented. Unfortunately, I did not have the galaxy centered well, so the coma shows more on the bottom right corner. Oh well...

Thanks for looking!

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M31 with old Sigma 80-200 film zoom, Tom Robbe