M31 Widefield

[trevboyd]

M31 with Canon 350D with 200mm f/2.8L lens, piggybacked on SW 120mm refractor on EQ-5. Manually tracked.

Stack of 9 images totalling 3min 30sec, mixture of f/4 and f/4.5, ISO-800 and ISO-1600. Stacked in DSS with 6 dark frames and tweaked in PS CS2.

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Trev

[MikeD]

Nice one trev, dust lanes showing well.

[daz]

Thats a great image - especially for manually guided!!

The old neck must be creaking a bit!!