My first M31, Great Nebula in Andromeda

[themos]

(click to enlarge)

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10x30s, Canon 450D, Carl Zeiss Jena 135mm f3.5 MC, ISO 800, EQ1 mount, unguided

10 darks, 10 flats, 10 offset, registered stacked and processed in DeepSkyStacker

annotations by astrometry.net

[jgs001]

Looking good Themos

[CELESCOPE]

Thats very nice Themos, nice processing and the lanes are showing as well . maybe a few more subs do get a bit more body in the image , but is a fine image all the same

Rog

[barkis]

Excellent Widefield Andromeda picture Themos. A great perspective of the spiral and It's companions.

Ron.

[themos]

I'm fairly pleased with the focusing and the tracking. The camera/lens combination looks like this ( picture is not mine )

and the mount is driven by this ( FLO picture )

This needs more and longer subs, it's true. It also needs better processing to make the background dark.

Many thanks to Matthew (SteelRat) for giving away his tube ring that held the Canon tight on top of the Celestron 114EQ.

Main target yesterday was the planet Neptune in Capricorn. I'm hoping to create an animation. M31 was an afterthought.

Onwards and upwards, eh?

[trevboyd]

Nice result, Themos! I like widefields of M31 where you can see it properly in context.

Trev

[Psychobilly]

Nice one Themos - Its great to see how different people go about framing and imaging M31. thats a cracker

And as you say onwards and upwards

[RobH]

Nicely captured and a great FOV Themos.

As Rog mentioned, a few more subs to add some body and also try playing with levels to bring the backgound back a bit. Be careful not to go too far though

Cheers

Rob

[legion48]

Nice one mate.