This is the closest galaxy to Earth and the Milky Way – and it will collide with the milky way in about 4 million years!
Equipment
- Sony RX10iv
- Sky-watcher Star Adventurer
- Sky-Watcher Tripod
Acquisition:
- 60x2min light frames, ISO 800, F/4.0
- 30 Dark Frames
- 50 Bias Frames
- 50 Flat Frames
Preprocessing
- stacked in DSS
Post-processing
- stretched data in Gimp
- combined unstretched and stretched data to preserve the core
- slight color saturation and curve adjustment
- Gimp Denoise
Image with objects:
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Thank you for the beautiful images of the Orion nebula and Andromeda galaxy.