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 Andromeda Galaxy, PghAstroDude
M31 Andromeda Galaxy
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M31 Andromeda Galaxy

M31 Andromeda Galaxy, PghAstroDude
M31 Andromeda Galaxy
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M31 Andromeda Galaxy

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The Great Andromeda Galaxy.

241x45" exposures, combination of Backyard and Spruce Knob data from earlier this year.

3hr 21m18s total exposure time.

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Description: Slight crop, composite image.

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Description: 2x Drizzle edit, cropped. Added some more frames from my backyard for this stack, 1hr 7m exposure time (mixture of iso 400 and 800 subs, 45 sec subs).

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Description: 3hr21m18s Exposure time, 50-sec exposures. Used Pixinsight for ABE, channel extraction and ACDNR/curve adjustment on the individual channels, then recombination and color calibration. Photoshop for layer blending and saturation boost. Lightroom for sharpening, removed the purple and red halos with CA removal tool, and noise reduction. Slightly downsampled and saved as .jpeg

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Description: 180 degrees rotated, brought up dust lane nebulosity.

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M31 Andromeda Galaxy, PghAstroDude