I Left the City to Photograph the Andromeda Galaxy

Photographing the Andromeda Galaxy

I rented an Airbnb about 45-minutes away from my home to photograph the Andromeda Galaxy. I set up my camera and telescope under Bortle Scale class 4 skies, which is a lot darker than my light-polluted backyard at home.

My Image Processing Guide: https://bit.ly/astro-processing

The final image includes 60 x 3-minute exposures at ISO 1600 using my Canon EOS Ra camera. I stacked the individual exposures in DeepSkyStacker with dark, bias, and flat frames to calibrate the image.

The calibrated, 3-hour integration was then processed in Adobe Photoshop using the methods described in my image processing guide. Clear skies!

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