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

M31 - Andromeda Mosaic, Craine
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M31 - Andromeda Mosaic

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This is my first decent attempt at Andromeda. It is a 6-panel mosaic, with each panel having just 20x 60-second exposures. I'm shooting from a suburban location and am still limited by skyglow and light pollution when shooting broadband. I hope to get more exposure time for each panel over the next couple months to start bringing out the details outside of the core.

Stacking was done in Astro Pixel Processor. I ended re-stacking three times with progressively higher Local Normalization Correction, eventually settling on 6 iterations of 2nd Degree LNC to remove excessive lightness on the panel overlaps.

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