M31 Andromeda

[AbsolutelyN]

This is one taken early Sept, 5.7 hours  (171 x2 min exposures) with Esprit 80 and 1600mm. Reprocessed with hopefully better colour.
High res - https://www.astrobin.com/x3skzl/C/?nc=user 

[MartinB]

Ooh that glows nicely, just look at those dust lanes.  It has an atmospherically misty quality to it which makes it look very natural.  That's a big "like" from me!  Maybe a tad more blue in there????

[AbsolutelyN]

18 minutes ago, MartinB said:

Maybe a tad more blue in there????

Thank you. Yes agree on the blue lacking a bit. I struggled to get it as blue as prominent as it is here so will perhaps revisit and try to extract more blue next time.  

[Allinthehead]

Very nicely done.

[Ouroboros]

Yeah, Lovely that. The galaxy almost has texture the way it stands out.  Personally I think you've got the colour about right. You could make the blues slightly bluer. But I'm not so keen on the bright fluorescent blues that others prefer. I think those look unnatural. (Though what is? 🙂 ) 

It might look better framed along the diagonal. I made the same 'error' myself in the last M31 I did and cursed that I had. 

Did you use a mono 1600 or is this the colour version? Maybe you said somewhere and I missed it. 

[AbsolutelyN]

1 minute ago, Ouroboros said:

Yeah, Lovely that. The galaxy almost has texture the way it stands out.  Personally I think you've got the colour about right. You could make the blues slightly bluer. But I'm not so keen on the bright fluorescent blues that others prefer. I think those look unnatural. (Though what is? 🙂 ) 

It might look better framed along the diagonal. I made the same 'error' myself in the last M31 I did and cursed that I had. 

Did you use a mono 1600 or is this the colour version? Maybe you said somewhere and I missed it. 

Thank you . Completely agree about the diagonal, would make for a stronger composition. Could possibly be cropped but ideally needs the camera at the right rotation. I find getting the right angle very hit and miss and once set don't want to move it and have to re-do flats every time etc. It's taken with the mono zwo 1600mm and zwo 1.25"lrgb filters. 

[Brian Maurer]

So much detail, great job processing.

[SyedT]

Lovely, really like the 'mistiness' as mentioned before. Perhaps the core could be dialled down a bit using HDR Multiscale Transform in PI? And agree about bringing out the blues a bit more.

In terms of diagonal composition, that does tend to work better, but I do find that occasionally seeing a more horizontal composition adds to the variety and brings a different kind of depth to the composition.  

[cuivenion]

Fantastic image.