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
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.
Thanks Colin! Always peeved me I couldn't see this in my 4" reflector over 30 years ago. Was probably looking straight through it
Thanks Mike. Had fun putting this one together.
Zoomy thing - didn't even know Google pics did that actually.
Miss being able to put decent descriptive notes on the bottom though since they zapped Picasa. At least the pics are on a black background now.
A terrific image. High class. Better than many shot in the northern hemisphere.
Greg.
Thanks Greg.
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Top work
Thanks for looking Louie
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Yeah that's ace! And subtle processing too, well done
Thanks Simon - the M42 of galaxies this one - bit of work to get right.
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Love seeing these northern objects imaged and this is beautifully done.
Appreciate that Pete
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Very well done, Rob! Not much left to say after the other comments but it's a cracker.
Cheers,
Rick.
Thanks Rick. Had to dust off my PI notes. Suspect some chromatic noise might have been better contained with more judicial masking, but not sure I could get it together again on another processing attempt