Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  Great Nebula in Andromeda  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224
M31 Great Andromeda Galaxy (cropped), Harrington Beach Imagers Group
M31 Great Andromeda Galaxy (cropped)
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M31 Great Andromeda Galaxy (cropped)

M31 Great Andromeda Galaxy (cropped), Harrington Beach Imagers Group
M31 Great Andromeda Galaxy (cropped)
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M31 Great Andromeda Galaxy (cropped)

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Nolan's first imaging session was a success! After installing and configuring software and drivers for telescope control and image gathering on his new laptop, we connected the club's SBIG ST8300c to an AT72ED riding piggyback on a CGE Pro-mounted ED127ED. Guiding was done through a SSAG/50mm guide scope combo. 2 2" extension tubes had to be used to come to focus, and the resultant flexure caused the stars in one of the corners to warp, unfortunately.

64 2 minute exposures were collected using Sequence Generator Pro, which was communicating with the camera, the autoguider, and the mount to target, center, track, and perform a pier flip once the object passed the meridian. Everything ran flawlessly.

I performed all pre and post-processing with Pixinsight, with touching up done in Lightroom 4, and resizing for web done in CS5.

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M31 Great Andromeda Galaxy (cropped), Harrington Beach Imagers Group