ANDROMEDA GALAXY | M31

I have a very interesting history with the Andromeda Galaxy, it was the very first deep sky object that I had photographed, back in 2021 I think, with just a camera and a tripod, it was blurry and not super visible but I could make up the dust spiral arms very well, it blown my mind that I could just point my camera to the sky and capture light from another galaxy, what a time to be alive!

So I like to re shoot the targets that I like the most because we are always upgrading our gear, but most importantly we are always learning and applying those new knowledges to improve our captures, and now with darker skies I feel like the possibilities have exponentially opened to me. I have been capturing images of Andromeda for quite a few nights and I gathered 35 hours o far, 20h of broadband light, and 15 hours of narrowband data, like those bright red and blue nebulas. I will keep adding data and get more and more clarity of the details, but so far so good.

71h 03 min total integration time
Sharpstar 61 EDPH II + 0.7 reducer @f4.5
ASI183MC PRO dedicated astrocamera
AM5 Mount
SVBONY UV/IR cut filter
SVBONY 7nm dual band filter
SVBONY 30mm f4 Guide Scope
ASI120MM mini guide camera with red filter
ASIAir mini
Bortle 4-5
Software: DeepSkyStacker > Siril > Starnet > Graxpert > Photoshop > Topaz Denoiser