The well-known Andromeda Galaxy, Messier 31, with its companion galaxies. M32, below it and seemingly embedded in M31's outer arms, and M110 above M31. Many yellow giant stars litter the field, as foreground stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. North is up in this framing. This is a stack of 6 x 8-minute exposures at ISO 800 with the Canon Ra and on the StarField Optics Géar80 apo refractor with its matching reducer/flattener for f/4.8. Taken from home through breaks in passing clouds as part of testing of this new scope. No darks or LENR used, just dithering between each frame using the MGEN autoguider. High pass sharpening and a Starizona Galaxy Enhance effect was added to bring out the dark dust lanes.
M31, Andromeda Galaxy, with companions M32 and M110. Taken with 92mm TMB apo refractor and Borg 0.85x flattener/compressor, and Canon 5D MkII camera at ISO 400 for stack of 4 exposures x 10 minutes and stack of 2 exposures x 2 minutes (for the core) blended in Photoshop with layer mask. (Photomatix HDR did not work -- images did not align, due to field rotation?). North is up in this vertical orientation.
M31 Andromeda Galaxy with M32 and M110, with 130mm AP apo refractor at f/4.5 with AP reducer/flattener, and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800 for stack of 6 x 8 minute exposures.
