Bigger size: 3050x2174
DATE
August 15 and 16, 2009
PHOTO
Exposure time:
L: 18x5' & 10x20'
RGB: 10x5' each channel
Total: 7.3 hours
Focal: 500mm, f/5
EQUIPMENT
Imaging scope: FSQ106 EDX
Camera: STL11000
Guiding camera: StarShoot Autoguider
Mount: Takahashi EM400
SITE & CONDITIONS
Henry Coe State Park, California
Seeing: Very good
Transparency: Poor
SOFTWARE
Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Processing: PixInsight & Photoshop
COMMENTS
M31 or Andromeda is without a doubt one of the most imaged objects of the sky, and one I knew I had to come back and try to get an image that at least escaped mediocrity. For that reason I focused on capturing an image that would allow me to get as many details as possible from the bright core that otherwise it tends to be either oversaturated or simply too bright to discern any details. I'm very happy with the results - with a fairly modest equipment I was able to scrap details out of the core that other images taken with much more expensive telescopes simply do not show.
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7 Comments
Comments
Joe Manley (Contact, Page), August 30th, 2009, 14:21
Exceptional work. Thank you!
Alonso Garcia (Contact, Page), September 28th, 2009, 22:17
I was viewing your site.
You get better year after year.
This photo is one of the greatest works i ever seeen:
* Simple: Because of your equipment.
* Superb: Because of GALEX in UV and you in Visible.
* Unbelievable: I simply can't. How, how did you? I mean: eeeexcelent work. You matched GALEX or the opposite?
กกกก Gracias !!!
Antoine Vergara (Contact, Page), September 29th, 2009, 1:06
Great website, a constant progress in your astro-photographer ability.
By the way congratulation for your 2009 September 29 APOD, the best Orion I've seen to date, similar to a great renaissance painting.
Rajendra Pareek (Contact, Page), September 30th, 2009, 0:33
I totally agree with Antoine Vergara. Great picture of M31 but the Orion on APOD is something to be admired wholeheartedly.
Tom Pressburger (Contact, Page), October 14th, 2009, 13:34
Congratulations and thanks!! Your M31 photo is the only one I've seen (not that I'm a pro) that shows the stellar-like core. The stellar-like core is very remarkable to me when observing M31 visually, and I've never seen it in the usual photographs of M31, nor seen it mentioned. I think I've heard that it is caused by stars close in to the black hole.
RobbiNewman Photo&Vision (Contact, Page), November 3rd, 2009, 23:37
superb again..only feel the blacks are a bit thin..tricky
Daniel J. Leibow (Contact, Page), December 29th, 2009, 10:01
Your work is like rare and precious art and you are truly a Da Vinci!
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