It’s Andromeda season! My latest attempt at m31, with a nearly 15-year-old SBIG ST-8300M camera. I’m amazed at how this camera is still ticking along, but I think it may be time for an upgrade soon. lol!
- Taken from a Bortle 5 suburban back yard.
- Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4 at f/3.6 with the 0.73x CR Reducer.
- SBIG ST-8300M at 1×1 binning, with the FW5-8300 5 position filter wheel.
- IDAS LPS-D3 36mm unmounted filter for luminance and Astronomik Deep-Sky 36mm unmounted RGB filters.
- Losmady G11 Gemini 2, guided with a piggybacked AstroTech 65EDQ and an Orion StarShoot autoguider.
- Software included PHD2 for guiding, Sequence Generator Pro for acquisition and PixInsight for image processing.
- 66 x 600s luminance integrations (IDAS LPS-D3)
- 30 x 600s red channel integrations
- 30 x 600s green channel integrations
- 30 x 600s blue channel integrations
- 26 hours total exposure time