The Stellar Nurseries of Andromeda (Bob Stevenson)

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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The Stellar Nurseries of Andromeda

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The Stellar Nurseries of Andromeda

I shot M31 a few years back in my DSLR days. This galaxy always has a special meaning for me. I was hesitant to try again, afraid I would not do it justice.

After learning a bit of Pixinsight, I decided to give it a try.

Back in the 1980s I used to dabble in film astrophotography. There were many late nights staring at a guidestar and adjusting my telescope manually during a 10 minute exposure. Hobbiests would use ‘hypered film’ - film made more sensitive by soaking it in hydrogen gas. Once I had my family and a busy job, I dropped astrophotography for a few decades.

With a big birthday 6 years ago, my wonderful wife bought me a new DSLR. I immediately took it outside and pointed it at M31 for 30 seconds. The result is the 'original' version shown here (deleted - take my word for it, it was really bad), or what I call ‘picture001’. This got me hooked on a whole new way to do astrophotography. How things have changed! Hard to believe that with just 1 thirty second picture that evening, a plane managed to trail right through it.

To think that the final version of this image, and original were taken only 6 years apart.... I still have picture001 come up on my screen saver slideshow to remind me of where I started.

Astrobin will show 3 sizes of any image. I find that the middle size makes the stars look strange. I have tried uploading different resolutions of this file, and different formats with no improvement. The full size image is much better.

Thanks for looking!

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Description: Trying a JPEG instead of PNG to see if the odd star impacts in the Astrobin presentation disappear.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	5071516
PixInsight job	TG1N9VQDO3FFX5LMJIVB6VJ7LJ2EG8L2
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	00h42m49s.47
RA (top/left)	00h47m48s.79
RA (top/right)	00h47m11s.81
RA (bottom/right)	00h37m38s.66
RA (bottom/left)	00h38m38s.22

Dec (center)	+41°17′00″.5
Dec (top/left)	+40°00′11″.3
Dec (top/right)	+42°39′05″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°32′55″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+39°54′17″.4

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