Here is a recent evolution of my post on getting more detail out of the M31 core. It resulted in Ole Alexander offering me more data to improve the core. He also kindly offered additional luminosity data that I added to the structures around the core. So, here is the result of this Norwegian-Swedish collaboration. His data is from a 12" f/3.9 Newton and mine from an Explore Scientific ED127 apo refractor. All with Canon EOS cameras. As you can see, there is more to the M31 core than a shini