Andromeda - one year into astrophotography (Daniel Axelsson)

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

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Andromeda - one year into astrophotography

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Andromeda - one year into astrophotography

So - today i celebrate my first year in astrophotography. The first image i took was of andromeda with my Fujifilm X-T20 and a Canon 75-300mm zoom lens. Untracked and on a standard tripod.
From the same windows on my balcony i did - one year later i took a new set of data with the EvoGuide 50ED scope and Uranus C Pro camera. Editing is a pain still but happy with the progress. For the one that wonders, bortle 6/7 skies and no filter other than UV IR was used for both since the Fujifilm camera has that built in.

Some facts: 3 hours of light frames - 60 seconds each frame. 20 darks 20 flats 20 darkflats Stacked and processed in PixInsight, using the usual process there - SPCC, GraXPert (Ai mode from within PI), BlurXterminator (mainly to fix stars), NoiseXTerminator, seperate stars from galaxy with StarXTerminator and then stretch with GHS and some curves. Stretched the stars with Arcsin and then curves to increase saturation of stars. Then i moved the starless and stars over to Photoshop for some detail work there and final bits

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
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Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	8797849
PixInsight job	D7M8VKYKZPMSWTP2UOWK63OA6QOXPZVY
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	00h43m01s.66
RA (top/left)	00h39m46s.11
RA (top/right)	00h50m21s.81
RA (bottom/right)	00h46m24s.20
RA (bottom/left)	00h35m41s.69

Dec (center)	+41°20′07″.7
Dec (top/left)	+40°06′08″.4
Dec (top/right)	+41°22′53″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°33′36″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°15′32″.2

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