Tuesday, August 27, 2013

got a galaxy (Etobicoke)

Manuel sent over a photo after some processing. The Andromeda Galaxy, M31, through his little refractor. From Saturday/Sunday. M110 and 32 too! Down to magnitude 15 or 16. Some dust lanes in the arms.


Not bad, given the elevation, heat from the houses, local light pollution, Moon light, etc.

I was pleased to see fairly round stars and relatively little trailing. The Orion Atlas polar alignment process I had helped him with worked out pretty good.

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