Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  Great Nebula in Andromeda  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224  ·  The star 32And  ·  The star νAnd
The Andromeda galaxy - wide field, Quentin Pelletier
The Andromeda galaxy - wide field
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The Andromeda galaxy - wide field

The Andromeda galaxy - wide field, Quentin Pelletier
The Andromeda galaxy - wide field
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The Andromeda galaxy - wide field

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This picture is my very first serious attempt at imaging something. I just got the Staradventurer and I played around with it for a couple months now.

As I live in French Guyana, Polaris is quite low in the sky, just above the horizon really so from where I live it's pretty difficult to see it.

The mount is set using a sky phone app which makes it tricky to get a good polar alignement.

Anyway I finally got something working for exposures up to a minute with a 135mm on a crop sensor DSLR.

This picture is a stack of approx 200 30 sec subs with DOF 20/20/0 at ISO 1600 shot with a 135mm F/2.8 old manual nikkor lens mounted on a Nikon D3300.

It's been processed with DSS, Photoshop CC 2015 and Lightroom.

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The Andromeda galaxy - wide field, Quentin Pelletier

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