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
M31 - Third Attempt, Gary
M31 - Third Attempt
Powered byPixInsight

M31 - Third Attempt

M31 - Third Attempt, Gary
M31 - Third Attempt
Powered byPixInsight

M31 - Third Attempt

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

This was my third attempt to capture a decent M31 image. I was fairly happy with my last attempt but lost a lot of frames to polar alignment and vibration issues which I think I resolved with this group of images.

Lessons learned from this attempt... I think I'll stop down to f4.0 and ISO1600 in hopes of getting sharper, less blown out stars. Thoughts on this?

I welcome suggestions and critique - very new at this aspect of astrophotography.

I'm especially interested in thoughts on the black level of the background. The darker sky makes a more attractive image to my eye but I want to be as accurate as possible and maybe this is too dark??

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

M31 - Third Attempt, Gary