M31 - Andromeda in Bortle 8 Skies

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Processed in PixInsight.

Full description of steps on blog:

Image and its associated datafiles is licensed in Creative Commons - Attribution License. I'm sharing this in hopes people can mess around with OSC data in a fairly high light polluted sky. There is some tilt / field curvature so it will need to be cropped - lessons learned moving to APS-C

I plan to share other data if it will be beneficial or useful to community - especially NB on OSC with Triad Ultra to see if people can share their processing techniques

Stacked/Calibrated master in xisf available here:

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy

Andromeda Galaxy imaged from our backyard observatory. Download our M31 data and learn how to process galaxies with PixInsight.

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The one thing you may want to consider is getting more of the colour out - it does look quite black and white as presented.

 

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here is a try at it. one thing i'm not happy with is that i ended up with some halos around the stars due to how i split the stars off from the galaxy so as not to push the saturation of the stars as much. also i think there are probably some residual gradients left in there.