Andromeda - well a start anyway

[Ramsay]

My first attempt at Andromeda from an Edinburgh back garden, there was more light pollution than I thought plus my camera battery went flat after 11 shots instead of the 20 I was aiming for. Stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop following the guidance in "Making Every Photon Count" by Steve Richards.

[jambouk]

Lovely. It looks like you need more data; and fully charged batteries

In fact the winner of our image of the month for October on the east midlands stargazers was a widefield of M31:

http://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/6206-picture-of-the-month-october-2013/

James

[jambouk]

What camera did you use and what settings; sub length, iso, f/, focal length of the lens?

James

[Ramsay]

What camera did you use and what settings; sub length, iso, f/, focal length of the lens?

James

Being a beginner here I'm not sure where all the information I posted along with the image has gone but here it is again:-

Canon EOS 5DIII with a 70-200mm 1:2.8 L IS II USM lens mounted on an Astrotrac

11 x 30 sec exposures @ ISO 1600 (it was supposed to be 20 but my battery went flat!)

10 x Darks

20 x Bias frames

Combined in DSS and processed in Photoshop using advice from "Making Every Photon Count" by Steve Richards

[Ramsay]

Lovely. It looks like you need more data; and fully charged batteries

In fact the winner of our image of the month for October on the east midlands stargazers was a widefield of M31:

http://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/6206-picture-of-the-month-october-2013/

James

Sadly that picture is no longer available

[jambouk]

Try here, sorry:

http://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/6037-andromeda-elac/

Thanks for the settings. Could you manage longer subs?

James

[Ramsay]

Great picture thanks, and food for thought.

Yes, I will be trying longer subs and more of them soon, the light pollution was quite bad last night and I'm surprised the picture came out as well as it did, at the time I didn't think longer subs would work well. I will be taking longer subs soon from a dark site which should help and with a scope.

So much to learn so little time.

[jambouk]

I look forward to seeing your next attempt. It would be lovely to live in a dark site! It's currently blowing a gale outside here in Nottingham so no observing tonight.

James

[Swedeman2013]

Really nice, as a photographer I'm impressed what people can achieve just messing around at home, well done.

[wxsatuser]

Thats quite good if your LP is bad.

[wayneh]

great pic think i need to give this ago one day

[shedifice]

Good pic

[pianorealm]

Well done! I'm still trying to find Andromeda...thought I saw it through binoculars the other night though

[Pete Presland]

nice start, it is nice to see M31 done in a widefield

[Pete Presland]

Well done! I'm still trying to find Andromeda...thought I saw it through binoculars the other night though

once you find it you will wonder why could not see it straight away!

[Alien 13]

Realy nice image it still suprises me how big M31 is.

[m37]

For a light polluted site that's a sweet image dude. Nice one.

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