Andromeda

[Astrodad]

So nice to actually get a couple of clear nights this week. Taken with the Rasa 8 and my Altair 269c OSC. Combination of 60,120,180 second exposures. About 4hrs in total

 

 

[TerryMcK]

At first I read that as 60 million 1 second exposures 😄

Fantastic work on the galaxy though. You have brought out the dark lanes well. The core always is a problem on M31 but you have done well taming it.

[AstronomyUkraine]

1 hour ago, Astrodad said:

So nice to actually get a couple of clear nights this week. Taken with the Rasa 8 and my Altair 269c OSC. Combination of 60,120,180 second exposures. About 4hrs in total

Nice image, the framing is perfect.

[MarkAR]

Very nice work there, core is great and the dust lanes too. Does look a bit red on my screen though.

[Astrobdlbug]

There’s a lot of detail in your image. Good focus and as said above very well framed, however there is a red bias across the image histogram. As a very rough reference I have edited your posted image on my phone and reduced the ‘warmth’ (red) and reduced the hue adjust as well and very quickly you can see the star colour pop across your image, I’m assuming your exposures were relatively short as the stars don’t seem overexposed and so contain lots of colour information, a very good thing, and the galaxy becomes in my eyes better defined and the Ha regions (red) become

more apparent. Might be worth another crack at in you image processing software as I’m sure there’s a better colour balance in there than my crude iPhone edit….