Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  20 pi. Cas  ·  23 And  ·  24 tet And  ·  25 sig And  ·  26 And  ·  27 rho And  ·  29 pi. And  ·  32 And  ·  35 nu. And  ·  37 mu. And  ·  39 And  ·  41 And  ·  Andromeda  ·  Andromeda Galaxy  ·  IC 1550  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 206  ·  NGC 218  ·  NGC 224  ·  NGC 272  ·  NGC 317  ·  Part of the constellation Andromeda (And)  ·  R And  ·  The star 32And  ·  The star 41And  ·  The star 57Gem  ·  The star θAnd  ·  And 6 more.
M31 - Andromeda Widefield, mr1337
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M31 - Andromeda Widefield

M31 - Andromeda Widefield, mr1337
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M31 - Andromeda Widefield

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After the comet set for the evening I tried pointing the camera at something else high in the sky so took advantage of the darker skies in Manasquan NJ (bortle 5/6) and went after Andromeda in a wide-field shot. Was impressed I got anything usable with 100x10sec exposures so decided to process it. Signal is a bit weak but I liked the image of a massive galaxy with many billions of stars floating out in the emptyness. May go after it again next time I head to a dark sky site.

Shot 85mm stopped down to f/2.8 at 1600 iso - had some t-shaped stars in the corners but cropped those out. Still some weirdness with the brighter stars but tolerable for a first attempt at a widefield like this.

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M31 - Andromeda Widefield, mr1337