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M31 in moonlight

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17 years 5 months ago #49190 by phoenix
M31 in moonlight was created by phoenix
With the moon last night I had not planned on doing any imaging. I went out to see if I could see any meteor activity and found that seeing conditions were near perfect with pinpoint stars and even only a slight twinkle to the stars closer to the horizon. I thought, sod the moon I'll have a go at M31 just to see what I'd get. I took 5x10 minute luminance images at full resolution. Heres the image link.

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17 years 5 months ago #49191 by paulevans
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Excellent work Kieran, you've even got detail in M110 which is excellent in the circumstances.

Which of your scopes did you use for this image?

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17 years 5 months ago #49193 by lunartic_old
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Amazing image.

Thirty years ago an image like that would be on the cover of the most popular astronomy magazines and the realm of the high end amateur with a lot of money or professional.

Congrats.
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17 years 5 months ago #49198 by michaeloconnell
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Great image Kieran.
A few more frames and you'd be able to push the processing a bit more and get more contrast. Excellent detail for only 5 frames.

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17 years 5 months ago #49202 by dave_lillis
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Some nice dark lane detail there Kieran, good stuff.
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17 years 5 months ago #49203 by phoenix
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A few more frames and you'd be able to push the processing a bit more and get more contrast. Excellent detail for only 5 frames.


Michael you just reminded me that I had taken 22 x 1 minute exposures in case the 10 minute shots burned out the core. The link below is the 5 minute and 1 minute exposures combined.

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