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3000km for my fist M31
Headed north for a couple of weeks with the plan of capturing a couple of targets that don't get much above the horizon down here. It ended up being a 3000km round trip to a little place called Proston in QLD which provided lovely dark skies.
One of the targets was the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) & its companions M32 & M110. Down here it doesn't even get to 15° above the horizon and with trees & hills to the north you get very limited time through a lot of atmosphere. A much better proposition from Proston.
Gear:
Saxon 102mm triplet @ F5.6 (SvBony 0.8x flattener/reducer)
Canon 6D (stock)
SW EQ6-R Pro
Guide scope: 50mm Orion Mini w/ASI120mm-S
Software:
Astro Photography Tool (APT) v4.26
PHD2, EQMOD
Pre-processed in Adobe Camera RAW (version 1)
Stacked with Sequator (version 1)
Stacked with ASTAP (version 2)
Processed with PhotoShop
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