The Andromeda Clouds (Andre Vilhena)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Andromeda (And) · Contains: Andromeda Galaxy · HD3969 · HD4143 · HD4174 · M 110 · M 31 · M 32 · NGC 205 · NGC 206 · NGC 221 · NGC 224

The Andromeda Clouds

This is my second take this year of M31, this time with a smaller FOV and with more details than my previous take this year:

The Andromeda Galaxy

To build this image I took the RGB acquired last year with the RedCat and OSC, while the luminance and Ha were taken with the 800 mm triplet and mono camera this year. While in the previous one the main concern was to eliminate some wild gradients and separate as much galaxy as possible from the backgound, in this version I focused in making the Ha to stand out (maybe more integration is needed to get where I envision), as well as the dust clouds near the core.

All in all, I think it turned out a decent image and I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you @David Cruz for your input before publishing.

Cheers.

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	00h42m11s.26
RA (top/left)	00h45m19s.18
RA (top/right)	00h46m18s.26
RA (bottom/right)	00h38m57s.25
RA (bottom/left)	00h38m11s.12

Dec (center)	+41°14′24″.9
Dec (top/left)	+40°10′23″.3
Dec (top/right)	+42°11′17″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°18′01″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°16′58″.9

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