NGC891 - Edge On Galaxy in Andromeda.

That's a gorgeous image. It's like you were right there beside it!

A great image Dave, its one fo my favourite galaxies,

well done dave great image love the detale i love them edge on galaxys keep them coming.


carl o beirnes,
new haven,
observatory.

Dave - you certainly nailed the dust lane detail. Very good shot.

One question - why 19x3mins and 1x10 mins?

Dave

Dave - you certainly nailed the dust lane detail. Very good shot.

One question - why 19x3mins and 1x10 mins?

Dave

First thanks to all for the kind comments.

Dave: I'm afraid their is no great inspired reason for 19x3min and 1 x10min. What happened was I lost a few of the 3 min exposures to rogue clouds I took 25 but only 19 were useable. I then thought I'd take a few 10 min exposures in case there were a couple of other galaxies in the field. After the first one, the clouds rolled in and stayed. On close examination of a DSS field of this area I realised that only two satellite galaxies of NGC891 were in that area and these were on my 3 min exposures.

But as I had the 10 minutes exposure, I thought I might as well use it!!!