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Photographer:

[email protected]

Location of Photo:

Bucks County, PA

Date/Time of photo:

9 nights September through November 2024

Equipment:

• William Optics RedCat 51 • ZWO ASI533MM Pro • ZWO filter drawer • ZWO Dual-Band Ha/OIII • Optolong L-Ultimate Ha/OIII • ZWO AM5 mount • ZWO ASIAir Plus • ZWO EAF

Description:

This deep, multi-night image of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) reveals an exceptional level of faint detail, including extensive dust lanes, rich star-forming H II regions, and subtle Integrated Flux Nebula surrounding the galaxy’s disk. Over 68 hours of total integration time were collected across nine nights from a Bortle 5 region in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The combination of broadband, dual-band, and ultra-narrow Ha/OIII filters allowed both continuum starlight and discrete emission structures to be captured with high fidelity. Careful processing in PixInsight and Photoshop preserved the natural stellar color balance while enhancing microcontrast in the dust lanes and outer spiral arms. The large, smooth halo of the companion elliptical galaxy M32 is also visible embedded within Androm

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