Image compiled over two nights 29th Sept and 1st Oct. Total integration time of 2.5 hours.
Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Camera: QHY268C
Guide scope: Sky Watcher Evoguide 50ED
Guide cam: Altair Astro GP-CAM 290M
Image capture: SharpCap
Guiding: PHD2
Planetarium: Cartes du Ciel
Stacked in DSS.
Processed in Affinity Photo V1.10.1 and Photoshop Elements 13.
2022-04-21
Reprocessed. Testing RC Astro StarXTerminator Photoshop / Affinity Photo plugin.
StarXTerminator can remove all stars from an image, leaving just the background and object of interest, in this case the Andromeda Galaxy. This tool enables processing the stars separately from the main object, so stars are kept small and more colourful.
