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Published: 2006-04-25 02:05:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 2731; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 149
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Description Since I haven't been able to pull together any new shots, I thought I'd post this one. I'm not crazy about this as is suffers from too little exposure that has resulted in considerable color noise, but it's the best I was able to put together this past year and it will be months until M31 is in a favorabel position again so that I can re-shoot it. I took the exposures for this RGB composite last September.
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Comments: 25

IndigoMidnight [2007-11-23 10:59:30 +0000 UTC]



I'm featuring this beautiful work here: [link] .

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Skana-orca [2007-04-13 07:50:06 +0000 UTC]

Splendid!!!

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skize [2007-03-02 08:09:05 +0000 UTC]

Damn! Cool...

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mscoelho In reply to skize [2007-03-03 00:37:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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fourbiddenfruit [2006-10-20 15:40:00 +0000 UTC]

I love this! It makes my messy house and unpaid bills not such a big deal.

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curtition [2006-05-09 14:54:35 +0000 UTC]

It is beautiful!

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olibariki [2006-04-30 11:18:45 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you decided to post this one!
It's awesome!

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Ralph0rz [2006-04-29 21:05:39 +0000 UTC]

Really nice work, M31 is one of my favorite galaxies. Job well done!

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Hector42 [2006-04-28 15:18:30 +0000 UTC]

Hmyes, I think with your possibilities you could make an image which should rock quite a lot more
Anyway, this shot is not bad. Depends on the point of view, I know, I'm very critical about my images too

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sethquanchi [2006-04-27 23:41:19 +0000 UTC]

hey this is fantastic how do u take these pictures?

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mscoelho In reply to sethquanchi [2006-05-08 02:15:21 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I have taken all of the pictures in my galaxy. There's a picture of my set up in my scraps folder.

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weatherking [2006-04-25 23:24:20 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful.

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mscoelho In reply to weatherking [2006-04-26 00:35:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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quicksimon [2006-04-25 22:31:01 +0000 UTC]

You're not happy with this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????

I've got to see the one you are happy with!!!! Can you please give some techincal info. i.e How many exposures, camera, telescope, how lond were exposures. Is this a mosaic? Great fov!!

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mscoelho In reply to quicksimon [2006-04-26 01:05:22 +0000 UTC]

Well thank you. I guess I tend to be extremely critical of things that I make. Now your going to tax my memory - let's see. I used a Takahashi FSQ106 APO refractor (qudruplet flourite Petzval design) mounted on a Losmandy G11 Gemini German equatorial mount with an SBIG ST10MXE CCD camera. This is a single frame, not a mosaic. The FSQ has a wonderfully big field of view. I took exposures through red, green and blue filters (R 8x180 seconds, B 8x180 sec, G 8x180) and combined them into a color image in MaximDL. I did DDP in Maxim and all other processing in Photoshop CS (levels, curves, color balancing). 24 minutes each for the red, green and blue borders on a snap shot in astrophoto terms. I really wanted to get a lot more color data, at least 3 times more and also luminence data. I will attempt this incredible galaxy when it is near the zenith again.

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nonameface24 [2006-04-25 17:31:22 +0000 UTC]

I am so faving this....

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mscoelho In reply to nonameface24 [2006-04-26 00:42:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. Conrats on your 1000 plus page views!

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nonameface24 In reply to mscoelho [2006-04-26 11:22:00 +0000 UTC]

hehe thanks.

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Modders82 [2006-04-25 08:55:38 +0000 UTC]

well personally i dont know that much about constelation (i dont even know if i spellt that right) phototaking...
actually i know nothing about it..

BUT i like this picture...a lot.

i like looking at it and the feeling of being small is very overwhelming

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mscoelho In reply to Modders82 [2006-04-26 00:41:46 +0000 UTC]

That's a big part of what draws me to astrophotography...the sense of scale and the beauty of the Universe of which we are a very small part.

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Modders82 In reply to mscoelho [2006-04-26 09:41:19 +0000 UTC]

indeed...and i can completely understand that...i can get stuck just staring at the stars on a clear summers night....its amazing how small we really are.

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Kokone [2006-04-25 07:42:28 +0000 UTC]

yup, that's good! I still have to do this galaxy. Expect some competition

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mscoelho In reply to Kokone [2006-04-26 00:39:09 +0000 UTC]

I can't wait to see your version.

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Chrissyo [2006-04-25 03:44:16 +0000 UTC]

That is one GREAT shot!

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mscoelho In reply to Chrissyo [2006-04-26 00:36:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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