Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  32 And  ·  35 nu. And  ·  Andromeda Galaxy  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 206  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224  ·  The star 32And  ·  The star νAnd
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M31, the Great Andromeda Galaxy, Nico Augustin
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M31, the Great Andromeda Galaxy

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M31, the Great Andromeda Galaxy, Nico Augustin
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M31, the Great Andromeda Galaxy

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Our beautiful galactic neighbor and cosmic dance partner, M31 the Andromeda Galaxy! Seen from KAUST university campus (Bortle 7-8), right at the shores of the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. The light pollution and air quality in this area are quite bad but I managed to catch some photons through an l-eNhance and NGS1 during three sessions. I stacked all the data together (i.e., did not process the narrowband data separately) in AstroPixelProcessor and then post-processed it in APP, PixInsight, and Photoshop. I tried to dim down the core a bit without giving it a too harsh HDR look. This is almost 8 hours of cumulated exposure time (5 hrs l-eNhance, 3 hrs NGS1) - I may try to get some more while I’m here :-)
Enjoy!

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M31, the Great Andromeda Galaxy, Nico Augustin