Andromeda Galaxy Astrotrac

[melsky]

Hi all

Got to find something to do in this damp weather so reprocessed an image of the Andromeda Galaxy I shot whilst on holiday in Scotland last September.

It's 36 frames of 3 minutes each at 1600 iso with a 300mm F4L lens on a modded Canon 600D all mounted on my Astrotrac, no filters used as it was a very dark site.

Stacked in DSS as a 32 bit tiff followed by lots of Photoshop.

Mel

[Tom OD]

Good pic, I wish I still had my Astrotrac.

T.

[bigbox]

WOW, Thats stunning end of...

[Astroblagger]

lovely picture, what mount do you have your atrotrac on?

[starnut]

That's very nice well done

[steve_bham]

Very nice pic you got there.

[Keiran]

Thats really nice, lovely details and colour, that 300mm f4L works really nicely for AP

[DannyHarvey]

Inspirational pic

[JonH]

That's absolutely stunning Mel, one of the best Andromedas I've seen and a perfect advertisement for the Astrotrac.

[Gina]

Excellent shot - beautiful - certainly one of the best I've seen too

[kingboya]

Very nice indeed!

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[cosmojaydee]

The only criticism I can offer is ....... "ITS NOT MINE"

[Jessun]

What a beauty! Brilliant work

/Jesper

[Mr Bergman]

Nice! I am impressed!

[Robny]

Awesome shot!

[Tim]

When I saw 'Astrotrac' in the title I wasn't expecting this, wow, great result Mel, dark skies really do make all the difference with Andromeda, especially where its colour is concerned.

[Shibby]

Awesome result! Did it require any cropping at 300mm focal length?

[K3ny0n]

Excellent image, I love it.

Rob.

[SJJ]

Fantastic, love the colour.

[Fay]

36 x 3 mins, extremely good!!!

Fay

[scoobee]

simply, wow

[jammo]

Whoa......that is a stunning shot, absolutely amazing

[peter shah]

a great shot, the astrotrac is a nice bit of kit

[Atacamallama]

Very impressive. Was ISO 1600 not a bit high?

[melsky]

Thank you all

It's only had a slight trim to tidy the edges up a bit, here's the field of view for a 300mm lens in Stellarium. From trial an error I find 1600 iso gives me the best results from the 600D

Mel