Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  32 And  ·  35 nu. And  ·  Andromeda galaxy  ·  Great Nebula in Andromeda  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 206  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224  ·  The star 32And  ·  The star νAnd
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M31 Andromeda galaxy with enhanced core and halo, Göran Nilsson
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M31 Andromeda galaxy with enhanced core and halo

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M31 Andromeda galaxy with enhanced core and halo, Göran Nilsson
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M31 Andromeda galaxy with enhanced core and halo

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For those of you that followed the recent thread "M31 detailed core collaboration" on SGL it ended with Olly offering to exchange data so that we could produce a wide field image of M31 with both an amazing halo (from Olly's data) and a detailed core (from the data from Ole Alexander and me). My challenge was to reach a compromise where the core was not too light to lose the detail and still harmonize with the whole image. The image is produced with both apo refractors and an imaging Newton, and CCD (for the widefield) and Canon DSLR cameras (for the core). Captured in France, Norway and Sweden,

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M31 Andromeda galaxy with enhanced core and halo, Göran Nilsson