Andromeda Galaxy...

I have been in and out the house all evening as the clouds passed over. Found a nice window and this is my first attempt at M31, 32 & 110 with a 200mm lens on my Canon 300D.

Only took the one shot as it was at zenith, my back was aching and I sat in a load of slugs. Fiddled a bit with the levels. No darks.

Nucleus and some of the spiral arms can be seen. The two elliptical galaxies can be made out too. Relatively short exposure as I just did a visual alignment on north with the naked eye.



Camera: Canon EOS300D with EF 200mm F2.8 lens
Mount: LXD75 GEM
Exposure: 120 secs
ISO: 1600

Now off to scrape slugs off my backside and early to bed as I intend getting up at 3am to have a crack at Macholz.

That's a nice image James! Especially for only a 2 min exposure.
As for clear skies, any chance you could send some my way please?

Hi James,
great pic, you also managed to capture the 2 satellite galaxies !

That's a great image!

Notice the Dust lane on the bottom side of the Galaxy!

Bart.

cool shot

the andromeda galaxy is one of my favorites ive seen it thru my binocs just having a hard time trying to line it up in my scope
ive use a few pictures on my desktop
just a quick ling to this site its a new picture every day for any one thats interested

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html :)

Cracking image James!
Johnmc.