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ASI6200 - First Light - M31, Palmito
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ASI6200 - First Light - M31

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ASI6200 - First Light - M31, Palmito
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ASI6200 - First Light - M31

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Ahhh, at last, I paired my refractor with the camera it diserves \o/

Ok so "first lightish", 4 consecutive days, no filter was used.

First day was terrible with difficulties focusing through OAG and particles that fell on the sensor and flats sesssion that failed. I managed to salvage those frames using PixInsight Local Normalization process, though if you look closely enough you might see it.

Last day was from a dark site which boosted my entire dataset, again thanks to Local Normalization.

First impressions are, WOW the ASI6200 is amazing! And dark sites are soooo much better than my Bortle-5 homesite! First time I feel I wouldn't benefit from more frames.

Andromeda used to be my nemesis. I started with a simple tripod and ended up with a big mount and now big scope and camera. But never managed to get it the way I wanted, that was until now :-)

I can't wait to receive my chroma filters to gather color channels...

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