Messier 31 Galaxy - NGC 224

Galaxy at 2.9 Million Light Years Distance.

This is our so far deepest image of Messier 31 - 25100 sec or nearly 7 hours CCD exposure time - following the 4 channel LRGB luminance method described by Rob Gendler et al

Photographers on several cold and dark nights : Karen Pardos Olsen, Marie Kjærgaard , Jeppe Overbeck Petersen, Christian Clausen, Lars Paulsen, Kristian Jørgensen, Rasmus Flytkjær , Esben Boye Jacobsen, Michael Jensen et al.

Limiting magnitude is measured equal to 21.4 - this will corresponds to photographing a candlelight at 1100 km distance, in our case - a candlelight in Russia..

Sky conditions - perfect while starting 2003-10-22 at 22:32:28 UT ending several nights later - occasionally haze.

Data : Apogee AP6E - 5 " Meade APO refractor - mounted PB at our 16 " user retrained SCT. Original field of view : 1,22 Deg.


Official SEDS data on this Galaxy

SEDS international webpage of M31 amateur images.

Finding chart for this galaxy - on dark nights you may spot M31 by means of unaided eye - instructions in Danish

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