M31 + a Nostalgic View (Michael Feigenbaum)

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

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M31 + a Nostalgic View

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M31 + a Nostalgic View

While I was waiting for the subject of another project to get high enough, I thought why not use the time to shoot a little bit of M31? I have tried this one a couple of other times and did not like the results so I was not expecting much. Anyway, I ended up doing an hour of integration, luminance only, and was really encouraged by what I saw after bringing the image into Pixinsight.

The resulting monochrome image, posted as the original image here, reminded me of some days long past when I was but a wee lad studying the books about astronomy my grandfather had in his library. This is what sparked a lifetime interest for me. This image reminded me of the pictures in those old books and I believe a lot of folks here on Astrobin probably have had similar experiences.

Accordingly, I decided to make this a project in and of itself and subsequently acquired a lot more data to see what I could accomplish.

A couple of aesthetic notes, I purposely left the galaxy off center as there is something I really like about "35 vAnd" and the little string of stars to the right of it. I also am somewhat proud of myself for resisting the temptation to yank up on the saturation slider, lol...

I'm fairly pleased with this image and I hope you like it too!

CS and stay well...

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Description: More saturated M31 2/23/2023

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	4048590
PixInsight job	ERNIKBO2RHP9WM1WYHDA5T0LU8OFWKR4
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	00h43m12s.99
RA (top/left)	00h35m12s.81
RA (top/right)	00h52m48s.13
RA (bottom/right)	00h51m35s.10
RA (bottom/left)	00h33m18s.60

Dec (center)	+41°15′16″.6
Dec (top/left)	+39°46′01″.3
Dec (top/right)	+40°08′53″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°42′19″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+42°18′38″.7

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