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Andromeda Galaxy July 29, 2022, Patrick Prokop
Andromeda Galaxy July 29, 2022
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Andromeda Galaxy July 29, 2022

Andromeda Galaxy July 29, 2022, Patrick Prokop
Andromeda Galaxy July 29, 2022
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Andromeda Galaxy July 29, 2022

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My second attempt at the Andromeda galaxy for this season.
The Andromeda Galaxy ... Messier 31 ... is our galactic neighbor being about 2.5 million light-years away and consists of about 1 trillion stars, as compared to about 250 billion stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy. You can see this galaxy with the unaided eye in dark skies high in the NE by midnight in late July.
This is a 5-hour 29-minute exposure from over 2 nights of July 27, and 28, 2022. I used a narrowband filter for one-shot-color cameras (Altair Quadband) on the first night and a standard UV/IR cut filter on the second.
Telescope: Orion ED80T with 0.8x field reducer
Focal length: 400mm (f/4.)
Filters: Altair Astro Quadband ... Baader UV.IR cut
Sub-frames: 47 x 420 seconds
Mount: Celestron CGEM
Capture Software: N..I.N.A.
Stacking software: Deep SkyStacker
Post Processing: PixInsight, PhotoShop

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Andromeda Galaxy July 29, 2022, Patrick Prokop

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