Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people

— Carl Sagan

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Andromeda Galaxy

Andromeda Galaxy

M31 taken thru AstroTech 111edt 11-6-11, 5x11 guided exposures color combined in MaximDL5 and processed in Photoshop CS4, trial image taken with SXVR-H18 Starlight Xpress ccd. From Whiting, New Jersey where the sky is so clear you can count the stars in the Milky Way !

Andromeda's core

Andromeda's core

Andromeda and companion from last October 2010. The images were sitting in my jump drive. Just got arount to process them today.

Andromeda Galaxy

Andromeda Galaxy

Saturday evening I spent the night with Joe Marzullo shooting images in the newly opened space along side of my residence in Whiting.  During the time from setup to closing around 1:30 I had imaged the Andromeda Galaxy thru Astrotech 111edt, 3- 20 minute images 1x1 (1390x1040) combined for color, RGB.  (By the way, the Milky Way can be seen from this site) I combined this image using MaxIm DL/CCD, slight processing, needs some sharpening.  We had a GREAT!

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