Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  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 νAnd
M31 Andromeda Galaxy #13, Molly Wakeling
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M31 Andromeda Galaxy #13

M31 Andromeda Galaxy #13, Molly Wakeling
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M31 Andromeda Galaxy #13

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Snagged a few subframes before the sun came up! Finally, an M31 image I'm happy with, after many attempts!

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Description: Re-stacked without a problematic frame and stretched in Photoshop instead of DSS. Also spent a lot more time on the color balance. I'll probably call this one "artistic" though, since I tweaked the colors quite a bit to get a visually pleasing result.

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Description: Finally starting to dig into PixInsight! I followed this excellent and exhaustive tutorial example on Light Vortex Astronomy: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-example-m31-andromeda-galaxy---dslr.html

Less color than my previous edit, but I think this one is more accurate. On my last edit, I just sort of made it look pretty...
Definitely got more galaxy to stick around though here, thanks to masking!

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M31 Andromeda Galaxy #13, Molly Wakeling