M31 HaLRGB

[Xplode]

It's been a while since i posted anything here, i'm starting with this one and hoping there will be more images ready for posting soon!

Taken with a Moravian G3-16200 through a Takahashi FSQ130-ED with a 645 0.7x focal reducer (f/3.5) on a10 Micron GM2000 mount from a remote observatory in Norway.

16x600s L
22x300s R
14x300s B
20x300s G
22x600s Ha
Sensortemp -30C
Total 11 hours.

The odd number of frames per channel comes from a lot of data being thrown away due to clouds.

All data is gathered by me from Askvang Observatory over 6 nights in october and processed by Ola Skarpen.



Thanks to Tommy Linnerud for allowing me to use his remote observatory and Ola skarpen for the processing.

[Sunshine]

There's something about shots of Andromeda that never get old, this one is beautiful, i wonder if anyone gets as lost as i do, when seeing M31 like this. I imagine the size of such a galaxy, some hundred thousand plus light years across, billions of stars, and who knows how many possible forms of life across its countless planets and moons, and here i am, looking at it from end to end, like some god .

[peter shah]

thats beautiful....full res is really worth looking at

[Laurin Dave]

Fabulous image.. just love looking at Andromeda.  

[tomato]

Superb, such crisp detail and noise free background. ?