2 Galaxies from last night

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/b...1smalljpeg.jpg

and sl darker if it looks over exposed
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...jpegdarker.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/b...3smalljpeg.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/b...jpegarrows.jpg

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

Wow! Absolutely stunning Chris. :yes:

Great stuff, Chris! :thumbsup:

Thanks for the new desktop wallpaper!

Keep 'em coming.

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

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

Great pic's. I'll never get bored of seeing your amazing images.

We saw some lovely stary skies in ST Lucia.

Great views Chris...keep em coming! :thumbsup:

Am always in aw!

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

We need a exploding head smilie! Fab pics Chris. DH was fascinated.