M31 Galaxy in Andromeda - 1st try with star tracker

[rcreamer]

Here's my first decent photo of M31 (galaxy in Andromeda).

This image data included (46) 30-second exposures at ISO 1600 and 200mm lens (4x mag).

I literally just made it far enough up the Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTi learning curve to get a decent shot of M31.

I used a Bahtinov mask for focusing.

I'm including a full view shot and a zoomed-in crop.

This was taken from my dining room deck last night

A7R5, Sony 70-200mm ii, SA GTi
Stacked in Photoshop w/o dark frame subtraction. Minor tweaking in LR.

 

[evacguy]

Here's my first decent photo of M31 (galaxy in Andromeda).

This image data included (46) 30-second exposures at ISO 1600 and 200mm lens (4x mag).

I literally just made it far enough up the Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTi learning curve to get a decent shot of M31.

I'm including a full view shot and a zoomed-in crop.

This was taken from my dining room deck last night

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A7R5, Sony 70-200mm ii, SA GTi
Stacked in Photoshop w/o dark frame subtraction. Minor tweaking in LR.

Nice shot. I think you can just make out dust lanes on the spiral arms. Pretty impressive as you’re not using specialist Astro stacking software.