I guess M31 is my M8 - the object I love coming back to - at least when its visible from our latitudes.
Andromeda wasn't originally on the hit list for this year at Astrofest, but there were clear skies with no fog early morning for a number of nights at the start of the week, and it was just sitting there in the north calling to me. So what can you do
LHaRGB: 90:210:35:40:40 mins (15min Ha, 10min Lum, 5min RGB all unbinned)
QHY9 on FSQ106 @ F5
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This image is a couple of firsts for me - 1st serious go at putting Ha into a galaxy image, first serious drizzle processing (75% downsampled). Comments welcome, and thanks for looking.