One from the archives. The night I tracked the Andromeda Galaxy which is the most distant object you can see with the naked eye as it moved low over the Southern Alps in New Zealand from where it never gets higher than five degrees. A bit of Ken Burns thrown in. #timelapse#beauty#andromeda
I'm reading The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood (mentioned in our #Andromeda episodes: https://starrytimepodcast.com/episodes) & it made me so mad, I just moved our Perseus episode down on the scheduled list (we were supposed to do it after we finish Orion, but I can't even look at Perseus rn)
The Andromeda Galaxy obvi gets all the attention for deep-sky objects in the #constellation#Andromeda (including in our most recent #podcast), but I also appreciate NGC 7662 aka Blue Snowball Nebula!
This planetary nebula is located ~2500 LY from earth!
Here is the final result of our other long-term October project: The Andromeda Galaxy. Like our revisitation of the Pleiades star cluster, this image demonstrates the progress we have made over the past year.
Imaging by @alex NYC - Bortle 9 / 220 x 180s subs, Sony a6300 (ISO 400) / Z61 (f5.9, 360 mm) /AM5 /ZWO asi120mm mini
100 years ago tonight: Edwin Hubble discovers the Universe
This photographic glass plate captured by Edwin Hubble on October 6, 1923, at Carnegie’s Mount Wilson Observatory forever changed our understanding of the universe and paved the way for modern astronomy.
My best Andromeda so far. I was actually able to just barely see it unaided last night, which was even more exciting!
Canon M200, Carl Zeiss 2.8/180 Sonnar at f/5.6, uv/ir cut filter.
SW Star Adventurer Si.
117x 30 seconds at iso1600, stacked with 50 each dark, flat, dark flat, and bias frames in Deep Sky Stacker, stretched in GraXpert. #andromeda#galaxy#astronomy#Astrodon#space#astrophotography