M31 - Andromeda Galaxy

Location: New Mexico Skies, USA (105 32 W, 32 54 N)

Date: 28 August 2009

Camera: SBIG STL-11000M

Telescope: Tak FSQ 106

Frames: six 300 second for each RGB (total 90 minutes)

Processing: Stacked in CCDStack, balanced, curves, increase saturation, highglights, masked and unsharpened slightly in Photoshop SC2

Comments: Captured using Global Rent-a-Scope equipment. A closer view of the central part of this galaxy can be found here.