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M31 2022, in RGB, wsg
M31 2022, in RGB
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M31 2022, in RGB

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M31 2022, in RGB, wsg
M31 2022, in RGB
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M31 2022, in RGB

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Guiding with the CEM70's has been a nice experience and occasionally fantastic.  On a couple of these nights in what was predicted to be average seeing I saw long stretches of RMS error in the 2's, but I suppose the light weight and FL of the FMA 260 helps with that.
I managed to squeeze out even more detail than last years M31 and I am pleased that the longer integration time produced more color depth especially in the Ha regions and the stars.   I am also very happy with the look of this years core.
I had hoped to add even more time but the full moon and a holiday next week put the brakes on that idea.
One quick processing note.  This is the first image in a very long time that I did not separate the stars to process the object and background separately.

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