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First M31 (and M32 and M110) of the year., Scotty Bishop
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First M31 (and M32 and M110) of the year.

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First M31 (and M32 and M110) of the year., Scotty Bishop
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First M31 (and M32 and M110) of the year.

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Got 24 minutes on M31 night before last. Seeing and transparency were both 1/5 due to high humidity, wind, and of course all 24 minutes were after 4:30 so I ran out of darkness (had the MGEN II set to dither between shots). Ohh, and my collimation is obviously still off and I want to find a way to shorten the draw tube in this telescope.

Gear used was a Pentax K1 in APSC crop mode, iOptron ZEQ25, ES David Levy Comet Hunter, Astromania 50mm f/4 guidescope, and MGEN II. It was 24x 60s (conditions were such that I was limited in length of exposure), dithered between shots, ISO 1600, stacked in DSS 4.1, processed in Photoshop for about 5 minutes. I really need to learn to use PI since I own it. The telescope was obviously too long of a FL for this too.

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    First M31 (and M32 and M110) of the year., Scotty Bishop
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Description: Decided to go back and reprocess this one again.

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First M31 (and M32 and M110) of the year., Scotty Bishop

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