M31 | The Andromeda Galaxy (Tom Hitchen)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Andromeda (And) · Contains: 32 And · 35 nu. And · Andromeda Galaxy · M 110 · M 31 · M 32 · NGC 205 · NGC 206 · NGC 221 · NGC 224 · The star 32And · The star νAnd

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M31 | The Andromeda Galaxy

Link: https://tomhitchen.com/m31-the-andromeda-galaxy

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M31 | The Andromeda Galaxy

Link: https://tomhitchen.com/m31-the-andromeda-galaxy

There were two moonless and clear nights so I wanted to do something broadband and I picked M31 and M33, one for each night (I added some M31 on the second night until M33 had risen above my house).

I ended up liking this version over my previous one and I can't quite say why but I'm probably going to leave Andromeda for now until I get a new camera or go to Wales with my setup.

I used this video (VisibleDark) to follow along and most of it was similar to what I already do but the Color Saturation method at the end I've never thought of using it in that way, and it immediately saturated the galaxy and stars nicely.

I also tried using this method of star reduction in Photoshop and I liked how it turned out so I'll probably use this in the future as well as my other methods in PixInsight.

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RA (center)	00h42m44s.15
RA (top/left)	00h49m48s.14
RA (top/right)	00h50m06s.22
RA (bottom/right)	00h35m11s.24
RA (bottom/left)	00h35m50s.93

Dec (center)	+41°16′09″.5
Dec (top/left)	+39°06′00″.3
Dec (top/right)	+43°25′54″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+43°24′35″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+39°04′50″.7

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