The Andromeda Galaxy

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:

This shows what objects are in the image

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