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Skywatcher
18-10-2009, 09:50 AM
4 Hours worth of exposures to get my best Andromeda yet - I know it must be a little tedious seeing the same subject again and again - I will put of 2 of these as they look different on different monitor - one is bang on on my laptop yet looks far to light and noisy on the PC.

Andromeda again M31 2.8 million light years away with her 2 orbiting galaxies a huge Galaxy that you can see from a dark place with the naked eye if you know where to look.

Click the bar at the top to make it bigger ( these are still 45 percent of the original! thats how big this thing is)

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb84/sidleydoc/M31smalljpeg.jpg

and sl darker if it looks over exposed
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb84/sidleydoc/M31smalljpegdarker.jpg

And the 2 hours on M33 the pinwheel Galaxy - harder smaller target and unfortunately due to some technical problems is far too noisy for my liking
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb84/sidleydoc/M33smalljpeg.jpg

Now I post pictures on here of Nebulae which are large clouds of gas that are star forming regions and as they are usually made of hydrogen are a bright red colour - all the ones I have posted are obviously in our galaxy - the milky way - like the pac man and the orion and the North American etc.

What you can see in this pic if you look is that I have managed to get at least 2 nebulae in this distant galaxy and the one top right even has some structure - so thats my first nebula in a different galaxy
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb84/sidleydoc/M33smalljpegarrows.jpg

ukwdwnut
18-10-2009, 09:54 AM
totally amazing chris

never get tired of seeing your pix, even if some are repeats, as you say best ones yet so thay are different in a sense eh!!

keep em coming mate :yes: :D

Isafari
18-10-2009, 10:10 AM
Wow! Absolutely stunning Chris. :yes:

catrancher
18-10-2009, 01:32 PM
Great stuff, Chris! :thumbsup:

Thanks for the new desktop wallpaper!

Keep 'em coming.

Tom (:macwave:... now where did I leave that Horse head nebula?)

Keith
18-10-2009, 01:39 PM
Absolutely stunning as always, I'll never get tired of seeing them.

A trillion stars in M31 or something I think I remember reading in last month's focus magazine

lozzy
18-10-2009, 01:39 PM
Great pic's. I'll never get bored of seeing your amazing images.

We saw some lovely stary skies in ST Lucia.

Slowhand
18-10-2009, 02:04 PM
Great views Chris...keep em coming! :thumbsup:

foreverducky
18-10-2009, 02:07 PM
Am always in aw!

Skywatcher
18-10-2009, 03:21 PM
Thank you. What is amazing about andromeda is that I struggle to fit it into the frame on the dslr chip most images are heavily cropped

Claire
18-10-2009, 04:14 PM
We need a exploding head smilie! Fab pics Chris. DH was fascinated.

kazzaqld
18-10-2009, 10:53 PM
Those are amazing - you are very patient and very talented Chris! Thanks for sharing with us! :thumbsup:

piglet
19-10-2009, 03:21 PM
Those pictures are absolutely amazing, you are so talented to take piccies like that :yes::yes: