M31 - Andromeda Galaxy

[Jarvo]

Ok - Its not very good. And the fact that Im using an Esprit 100 doesn't do this awesome instrument justice.

That said I did have tracking issues. I could not for the life of me get PHD working with the EQ5 conversion kit (suspect its not that compatible). I ended up scrapping the guiding and doing just 1 minute exposures at 1600 using a CLS filter.

40 minutes in and the clouds rolled in so used the rest of the time to get some darks.

In post production 6 or so of the images weren't fit for purpose (trailing) so I was ruthless and chopped them out reducing the final tally to 34 plus 9 darks.

I've resized it as well which covers up a multitude of sins 

I think I can see at least one dust lane though.

The CLS filter (and the OIII filter when I snapped the  Owl) gives the image an eerie green glow so I've desaturated the image to remove this.

Apart from getting more data (and a better camera), the light pollution in Leeds and kit restrictions (I'm using a hastily dating Olympus DSLR) mean this is as good as I could get.

Christmas is coming though ...

Not perfect but in the immortal works of British Leyland..."that'll do".

Thanks for looking

Jarvo

 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2019 by Jarvo