Sunday
Feb232014
Day 12 The Moon and the Onion, M31 using Deep Sky Stacker and IRIS.
Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 10:40PM CLICK THROUGH THE LINKS ABOVE TO MOVE FORWARD OR BACK
A clear start to the day. It then clouded over but cleared in the evening so I was out at the telescope.
The Moon was visible from my front window in the morning. Here it is to the right of the Onion Dome house in the village.
A closer view
I set up in the evening as usual with the target of taking multiple short exposures to combine.
The image was taken with my Canon 40D and 38 to 76 mm zoom lens (shown below) set at 76mm. No telescope involved.
This image of The Andromeda Galaxy M31 is a combination of 19 median combined light frames (30s each) with 20 median combined dark frames.
The image was taken using the Canon EOS software and combined in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in IRIS.