chromosphere » S@N magazine http://www.chromosphere.co.uk Graeme Coates Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:00:19 +0000 en hourly 1 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NCCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC M31 (NGC 224) – The Andromeda Galaxy http://www.chromosphere.co.uk/2008/02/07/m31-ngc-224-the-andromeda-galaxy/ http://www.chromosphere.co.uk/2008/02/07/m31-ngc-224-the-andromeda-galaxy/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:47:30 +0000 Graeme Coates http://www.chromosphere.co.uk/2008/02/07/m31-ngc-224-the-andromeda-galaxy/ RA: 00h 42m 44.3s, Dec: +41°16′ 9″m31_20060921.jpg
The Andromeda Galaxy is a naked eye object from a dark site, appearing as a small smudge in the sky. Long exposures reveal it’s true extent (over three degrees in size!) as well as two smaller elliptical companion galaxies (M32 – top, and M110 – bottom edge partially off frame). It is a member of the Local Group of galaxies, and is actually moving towards us at a rate of about 300km/s. Taken from Abingdon, UK on the evening of September 21st, 2006.

This picture was chosen as Anacortes Telescope & Wild Bird picture of the day on 6th Nov 2006.

Additionally, it was chosen as Sky at Night Magazine Hotshots Picture of the Month, Feb 2007 and subsequently it was chosen as Sky at Night Magazine Hotshot of the Year, 2007. (Sky at Night Magazine). As part of the Sky at Night Hotshots competition, I won a 5x Astro Engineering barlow lens for the photo of the month, and a DMK41AF02.AS camera from The Imaging Source.

I’m very happy with this one – if anything, it needs a bit more data – especially in the colour channels – I’m tempted to have another go at this, maybe as a mosaic at a later date :)

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