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M31 Andromeda
Had a crack at M31 over the weekend. Obviously this doesn't make a great southern hemisphere target and from where I was shooting north of Sydney, it barely gets above 15 degrees altitude - so ridiculously low.
I had very, very poor guiding, much worse than normal - I am usually getting 0.7 to 0.9" RMS but this was 2.3 - 2.9" RMS. Is this because of how low the object was? Can this cause poor guiding? Nonetheless, some usable data was gathered. This is around 90 minutes of integration so not a lot, but have to work with what we get on this object in NSW...
Didn't have time to do a mosiac and unfortunately Andromeda is too big to fit in the frame with my gear (Esprit 80 and 533MC) but still don't mind how it turned out. Could use a lot more integration but I don't think I'll invest too much more time in it given the data is never going to be great anyway from this latitude.
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