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My Second M31 and Milky Way
Saturday 15th September 2007
Its been a while since I have done any astrophotography, mainly due to all the clouds and lack of a summer this year! But anyway last night was a surprisingly good night. For some reason the sky was particularly clear and dark, and I could even just about make out the summer milky way in the sky! That was the first time I have seen it!!!
M31 was my target for the night, so I set about looking for it - and there it was! Visible by averted vision!!! The skies where I live are usually very light polluted which make finding DSO’s difficult, let alone imaging them.
These images were taken with my unmodified 350d mounted on an HEQ5 with a 70-300mm IS lens. The mount was not accurately polar aligned due to a tree being in front of Polaris. I used the drift method, which was good for 45 second exposures, however I used 30 second exposures because I broke my remote switch and couldn’t use the bulb setting. This image of M31 was created using 15×30 second exposures aligned and stacked with Photoshop.
My first attempt was nearly a year ago and can be seen here: M31 - Andromeda Galaxy
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This post is filed under Astrophotography, Cars, Light Pollution by Lonewolf at 1:45pm
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Bill
Posted on Sunday 16th September 2007 at 8:46pm
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thats a great image you have there. keep up the good work!
bill
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