At long last, I have a scope that can give me a shot at M31 again.
This is a "test shot" from the first light of Pumpkin, the new 66mm refractor.
There is FOV to spare on the little scope.
Hand-focusing sucks, especially without a diffraction spike rig to help out.
Pretty bright moon washed out a lot of the dimmer parts of the galaxy.
Definitely a worthy target on a better night, though.
M31, The Great Andromeda Galaxy (central region)
Veronica's FOV is too tight to get all of Andromeda. M32 and M110 were hugging the edges
of the original, but were too vignetted to keep.
I think that I'm going to have to make a mosaic of M31 at some point (or shoot it with a shorter lens (: ).
M31, The Great Andromeda Galaxy (grayscale image)
Shot while up in Shingletown, CA during July 2005 and finally(!) processed and uploaded in August 2006...
The Great Andromeda Galaxy, M31
Film: E200
Camera: K-1000
Lens: ED80 (600mm f/7.5), prime focus
Guiding: ST-4
Exposure: stack of 11 images, 7x20min, 4x45min
Date: September 9, 2004 Reprocessed March 18,2005. Click here to see the original image.