2 Galaxies from last night

[Skywatcher]

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)



and sl darker if it looks over exposed


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


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

[ukwdwnut]

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

[Isafari]

Wow! Absolutely stunning Chris.

[catrancher]

Great stuff, Chris!

Thanks for the new desktop wallpaper!

Keep 'em coming.

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

[Keith]

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]

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

We saw some lovely stary skies in ST Lucia.

[Slowhand]

Great views Chris...keep em coming!

[foreverducky]

Am always in aw!

[Skywatcher]

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]

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