Andromeda Galaxy (James R Potts)

Andromeda Galaxy

Revision title: Another revision

This is my annual capture of this beautiful galaxy. I was curious if my 2600MM would add much detail over the image I captured last year with a 294MC, also since I shot this with a mono camera I added some Ha data. I am a bit disappointed in the Ha data and overall with the image as it isn't as big of an improvement as I hoped or expected. You can see some of the nebula's (from the Ha) if you zoom in. Maybe if I processed this differently when combining the Ha I could bring out more of the nebula in the galaxy.

Andromeda Image with my 294MC (same scope)
https://www.astrobin.com/mmbg3i/B/?nc=&nce=

Both are a lot better than my first image of M31
https://www.astrobin.com/iqnf20/C/?nc=&nce=

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Title: Revised increase Ha

Description: I did a new RGB combine (HaLRGB) and increased the slider for the Ha to see if I could bring out more of the nebulas in Andromeda. It seemed to work, let me know what you think.

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Title: Another revision

Description: I keep playing with the sliders in APP, this one doesn't look at lot different, little more red and less blue. I also cropped this one a little bit more.

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Title: Last revision, I promise

Description: This revision, I played with the sliders in APP, turn up the Ha and Blue. I did not make any color adjustments once I took this to PS. In PS I used Topaz NR, Gradient removal tool, Actions local contrast.

More blue even toward the curve, not sure which version I like the best, but I think I am leaning toward #3. What do you think?

One of my biggest challenges in almost all of my images is getting a good balance between having nice detail without having a lot of noise. You mostly only notice this when you zoom, but I do like to zoom in on mine and other peoples images to see all the detail. If an image starts showing a lot of noise when you zoom in, it is not as attractive, IMHO. This image I tried to make a compromise on both the detail and the noise. Let me know if you would have went heavily in one direction or the other (noise vs. detail).

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Title: Andromeda with the Moon

Description: Just for grins, I imaged the moon 2 nights ago using the same telescope and camera as I imaged Andromeda back in August and then layered that image over Andromeda. So if we could see Andromeda this is how it would compare to the Moon. Pretty amazing that something 2.5 million light years away would have a large night sky foot print than the moon.

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RA (center)	00h42m36s.25
RA (top/left)	00h47m45s.78
RA (top/right)	00h48m08s.23
RA (bottom/right)	00h37m12s.36
RA (bottom/left)	00h37m19s.31

Dec (center)	+41°15′14″.2
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