M31, M33 & NGC752

 

        Here are three nicely positioned and photogenic objects making a nice triangle around the bright magnitude 2 star Mirach in the constellation Andromeda.  In the upper right is the magnificent Andromeda Galaxy, M31.  In the upper left a large open star cluster NGC752 may be found and near the bottom left is the bright spiral galaxy M33.  This was taken with a telephoto lens piggybacked on my main telescope and the telescope slightly blocked the field of view to the lower right.

 
Optics Camera Film Exposure Mount/Guiding Scanning Processing Location Date
105mm f2.8 @ f4 Nikon F PPF 400

15 min.

10 min

 G11 piggybacked on 10" SCT; unguided Minolta Scan Dual II Levels/Curves/linear gradient in PS7; Grain reduction in Neat Image Inyokern, CA 1/24/04

Comments: Poor seeing.  Some thin high clouds coming and going.