Andromeda Galaxy, Feb’21

7 Days after my first evening with my Vixen ed80sf, on February the 20th 2021, i had another clear sky. Again, i had to test and try a lot. Part 1/3

The Evening

The second evening with my new little APO. Another evening of trying a lot of things. I wanted to see some of the objects i saw on the Facebook Astro-Groups every day.

Andromeda Galaxy, M31

I started with 20 photos at ISO 1600 with 120 seconds exposure time – unguided (!) – at the Andromeda Galaxy M31. The single exposure were unguided. Some of them were really nice:

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120 Seconds. Unguided! 600mm on Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro.

I did the stacking with DSS using BIASES and DARKS and stretched the result with GIMP. Not all of the frames had those awesome round stars as you can see in the result:

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