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Messier 31 - The Andromeda Nebula Mosaic in 8K resolution, Frank Schmitz
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Messier 31 - The Andromeda Nebula Mosaic in 8K resolution

Messier 31 - The Andromeda Nebula Mosaic in 8K resolution, Frank Schmitz
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Messier 31 - The Andromeda Nebula Mosaic in 8K resolution

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Wow, what a saga that was to put the mosaic together. This is my first LHaRGB mosaic ever and I had quite a hard time to match all the intensities ... especially for the color channels.

In the end I kept adding subs to low quality panels in order to even things out and zoooom I ended up with 36 hours of integration. My longest integration so far and by far the longest pre and post processing of all of my previous images.

Fun fact: My last two images (Melotte 15 and the Pacman Nebula) which were both also 9+ hours were only shot while waiting for M31 to rise ;)

I encourage you to have a look into the full view: NGC 206, Cepheid Var 1, the core, the HA regions, small faint structures in Messier 110 really profit from the high resolution and the exposure time.

I hope I did this wonderful target justice and I hope you like it! Let me know what you think!

Edit: It seems that Android Phone Browser tend to have a problem with the full resolution. It definitely wasn't the full scale I saw there

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Description: Slightly balanced the colors a bit more to make the blue more blue and less purple

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Description: Lacking clear skies to gather more data on my next project I decided to give M31 a little touch up. Image is a lot cooler now (color temperature) and similar to my first panel I decided to annotate some nice features in the image.

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Messier 31 - The Andromeda Nebula Mosaic in 8K resolution, Frank Schmitz

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