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 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.
M31 Andromeda galaxy with M32 (bottom) and M110 (top) With Williams Optics FLT110 f/6.5 apo refractor with field flattener and Pentax 6x7 camera. Ektachrome E200 slide film and 1 hour exposure. Single image. Taken from home, October 2003. Field simulates FOV of large binoculars.
