Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  35 And  ·  Andromeda Galaxy  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224  ·  The star 32 And  ·  The star ν And
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Andromeda HaRGB, Jay Sanchez
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Andromeda HaRGB

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Andromeda HaRGB, Jay Sanchez
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Andromeda HaRGB

Revision title: denoised

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I was very excited for first light with the Askar135. But my stars came out atrocious -- I was having a hard time focusing so I was hopeful my mishappen stars where due to the off focus. I had to wait a week for a 3d printed bhatinov mask and last night confirmed my focus was indeed off ... whew. I was hoping that I didn't get a bad lens copy. The stars aren't perfectly round yet but I think I can still tweak the focus, I will test with short exposures (to eliminate guiding issues) to see if I can get rounder stars. I shot a the Ha slightly out of focus (not on purpose) ... but I kept that layer and used it via NBRGB combination script (PIX).

Clear skies!

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