Imaging telescopes or lenses: GSO RC12 truss
Imaging cameras: Moravian G3-16200
Mounts: 10Micron GM2000 HPSII
Guiding telescopes or lenses: GSO RC12 truss
Guiding cameras: Moravian G1-0301
Software: PHD guiding · Voyager · Pixinsight 1.8 · Adobe Photoshop CS 5
Filters: Astrodon Tru-Balance Gen2 E-Serie 50mm L · Astrodon Tru-Balance Gen2 E-Serie 50mm R · Astrodon Tru-Balance Gen2 E-Serie 50mm G · Astrodon Tru-Balance Gen2 E-Serie 50mm B
Accessory: Moravian OAG-3-M68
Dates:Sept. 4, 2019 , Sept. 29, 2019 , Sept. 30, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon Tru-Balance Gen2 E-Serie 50mm B: 17x300" -20C bin 2x2
Astrodon Tru-Balance Gen2 E-Serie 50mm G: 18x300" -20C bin 2x2
Astrodon Tru-Balance Gen2 E-Serie 50mm L: 27x600" -20C bin 2x2
Astrodon Tru-Balance Gen2 E-Serie 50mm R: 18x300" -20C bin 2x2
Integration: 8.9 hours
Darks: ~15
Flats: ~15
Flat darks: ~15
Avg. Moon age: 2.86 days
Avg. Moon phase: 12.64%
Mean SQM: 21.40
Astrometry.net job: 3048780
RA center: 2h 22' 33"
DEC center: +42° 20' 56"
Pixel scale: 1.016 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 90.110 degrees
Field radius: 0.357 degrees
Resolution: 1984x1565
Locations: Promiod, Aosta, Val d'Aosta, Italy
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
This spiral galaxy in Andromeda has apparent dimension of 13.5’ x 2.5’ and it is characteristic for dust lane.
It has a distance of 32 million light years and a diameter of 126000 light years, so it is larger than Milky Way and in addition has a higher activity in terms of star formation rate and radio luminosity. This could be due to tidal perturbations with another galaxy, which led also to a warp of the disc plane of the galaxy.
Indeed, following the dust lane in the image, you can see that on one side the dust lane is bent downward while on the other side is bent upward.
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