Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  NGC 891
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NGC891 Galaxy in Andromeda, Giovanni Paglioli
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NGC891 Galaxy in Andromeda

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NGC891 Galaxy in Andromeda, Giovanni Paglioli
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NGC891 Galaxy in Andromeda

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This is a new image acquired during the Madonie star party at the beginning of July 2013. A brend new telescope is been used for this High res shot, the new OS RiDK 305 f8 OTA. The seeing was very good during the two days of the star party, always between 1.3" and 1.8". Despite the telescope diameter of "just" 305mm, with the use of a small pixels ccd camera (using an 8300, 5.4microns/pixel sensor), a scale plate of 0.44arc/sec/pix was been achieved, revealing the full potential of this optics.

The shot is been acquired during the one night and is just a Luminance image of about 90 min total in bin 1x1.

Optics was Officna Stellare RiDK305 f8 on a GM2000HPS mount with a QSI WSG8 ccd camera using a Lodestar guide camera.

The image is an full res crop of the central area since I had to deal with gradients and light from passing car lights...

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NGC891 Galaxy in Andromeda, Giovanni Paglioli