M31 for Kelling Heath star party

[red dwalf]

this was from early Thursday night, there was a bit of cloud about so i only took 2 minute subs in LRGB 

 

 

[brantuk]

Nice one Rob - came out smashing despite only a short time.

[Ronclarke]

Great image for such a short time!! 

[JOC]

Images like that are stunning.  It clearly fills the frame what sort of magnification does that entail?  Is it enhanced or zoomed in on a computer? (it must be???)  Could a visual observer ever hope to see something (albeit fainter) at a similar size scale relative to the frame in their visual telescope?

[red dwalf]

i was using an Atik 460 mono camera with a William Optics gt 81 fitted with a 0.8 reducer, with the reducer fitted this makes the scope a very short focal length but using my camera which doesn`t have a massive chip i still can`t get all of M31 in to the frame, it`s such a large target, this image was slightly cropped to remove some processing artefacts, this is the thing about imaging i like, no way would you be able to see such detail and M31 true size with an average visual scope. i have used Photoshop CS3 and Startools to process the image which does allow me to bring out the fainter edges of the galaxy.       

[wookie1965]

Wow

[Stephen Green]

That is a great image Rob and the detail