Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  Andromeda Galaxy  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 206  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224
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My first Andromeda, Pedro A. Sampaio
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My first Andromeda image, and effectively the first light of my new telescope, the William Optics GT71-II!

Andromeda is a difficult target for me. It never rises up more than 27 degrees, and for the most part of the night, it sits in front of a light dome from a nearby city. Threfore, I could only gather 2 hours of data (best 60 images of 64 total, 2' each). Also, windy night with bad seeing!! Regardless, I'm impressed given the limitations I had!

This is my first take on post-processing it. May have a little bit of a red tint, I'll probably upload a revision in a few days, with better color correction. Also. the FF/FR spacing is still a bit off, need to check on that again.

Cheers!

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  • My first Andromeda, Pedro A. Sampaio
    Original
  • My first Andromeda, Pedro A. Sampaio
    B
  • Final
    My first Andromeda, Pedro A. Sampaio
    C

B

Description: Revised the image, mainly the colors - less red and more blue. Thanks for the help from the wesome forum community!

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C

Description: Another revision. This time, I reprocessed from the start. I wasn't happy with the previous star reduction, lots of little artifacts. The image was also too warm for my tastes.

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My first Andromeda, Pedro A. Sampaio