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Description
Finally had a chance to reprocess Nearest Neighbour with all the available data.

M-31 The Andromeda Galaxy with companion galaxies M-32 (bottom,attached) and M-110 (upper)
Approx 2.9 million ly distant

Imaged at the CCCA Observatory
Wellandport, Ontario
Aug 29th 2011

William Optics Megrez 72mm Apo Refractor (New Toy)
W/O .8X field flattener
EQ Pro 6 German Equatorial Mount
Orion Starshoot Autoguider
Canon Digital Rebel XT (unmodified)

Prime Focus
20 X 3 min exposures @ ISO 800 combined(original)
Then
15 X 1 min exposures @ ISO 800
20 X 30 sec exposures @ ISO 800
combined and layer masked in to preserve core detail
Dark frames subtracted
1hr 25 min Total Exposure
Combined with Deep Sky Stacker
Processed with PS CS2

Description
Finally had a chance to reprocess Nearest Neighbour with all the available data.

M-31 The Andromeda Galaxy with companion galaxies M-32 (bottom,attached) and M-110 (upper)
Approx 2.9 million ly distant

Imaged at the CCCA Observatory
Wellandport, Ontario
Aug 29th 2011

William Optics Megrez 72mm Apo Refractor (New Toy)
W/O .8X field flattener
EQ Pro 6 German Equatorial Mount
Orion Starshoot Autoguider
Canon Digital Rebel XT (unmodified)

Prime Focus
20 X 3 min exposures @ ISO 800 combined(original)
Then
15 X 1 min exposures @ ISO 800
20 X 30 sec exposures @ ISO 800
combined and layer masked in to preserve core detail
Dark frames subtracted
1hr 25 min Total Exposure
Combined with Deep Sky Stacker
Processed with PS CS2