The Andromeda Galaxy

"Messier 31 (M31, NGC 224) is the famous Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large neighbor galaxy, forming the Local Group of galaxies together with its companions (including M32 and M110, two bright dwarf elliptical galaxies), our Milky Way and its companions, M33, and others."- SEDS.ORG


Telescope/camera: Takahashi FSQ 106 EDX (with Reducer) with a QSI532 ws M1, FS60SV and ST402ME as guider.
Mount: Takahashi NJP Temma 2 on a PWT Pinnacle pier.
Exposure: Red:120 mins, Green: 120 mins and Blue: 120 mins. All taken with 10 mins subexposure.
Synthetic Luminance form RGB channels
Astrodon E-series LRGB filters Gen 2.
Software: CCD Autopilot 4.0, MaximDL, CCD Stack and Photoshop CS2.

Taken on October 2, 4 and 5 2008 in Jackson, Ohio.