rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Charles Messier, who compiled the first western catalog of interstellar objects, classified as nebulas, described M31 as The sky has been very good in the night of August 3 to 4, 1764; & the constellation Andromeda was near the Meridian, I have examined with attention the beautiful nebula in the girdle of Andromeda, which was discovered in 1612 by Simon Marius, & which has been observed since with great care by different astronomers, & at last by M. le Gentil who has given a very ample & detailed description in the volume of the Memoirs of the Academy for 1759, page 453, with a drawing of its appearance.
Telescope was William Optics RedCat51, ZWO ASI533 color camera. The sequence was 1 hour of 30-second exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and finished in Pixinsight. The final finish in Adobe Lightroom.
Astrophotography is the most difficult and detailed imaging I have ever done.
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Excellent image.