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M31 - Rescued data from the Black Forest Star Party 2021, mr1337
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M31 - Rescued data from the Black Forest Star Party 2021

M31 - Rescued data from the Black Forest Star Party 2021, mr1337
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M31 - Rescued data from the Black Forest Star Party 2021

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At this year's Black Forest Star Party I brought a second widefield rig (70mm Meade Quadruplet) but my grab and go mount had an issue with the RA controller board - I decided to bring along the SkyGuider Pro to see how it would do. Despite being overloaded a bit the Luminance I got was great, I can't say the same for the RGB... I thought I would just have to go starless until I was able to head to the Catskills and get some RGB and extra Lum that I hoped would result in a decent image.

Drizzling worked well due to the large image scale and had to reduce the final image size 50% to make it more accessible via the Full Resolution button.

Ended up with almost 7.5 hours of data which was enough to get more detail on this object than I ever have before. Maybe next time I head to Cherry Springs the gear gremlins will stay home!

S. Orange NJ:
H-alpha - 23 x 600 sec

Catskills:
L - 67 x 120 sec
R,G,B - 30 x 120 sec

Cherry Springs State Park:
L - 67 x 120 sec

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M31 - Rescued data from the Black Forest Star Party 2021, mr1337

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