M31, The Andromeda Galaxy
 
   
Location and Date Taken at Little Mount Hoffman, California 9/2/2008
Telescope Vixen 114ED Refractor with the f/4.4 focal reducer
Mount Orion Sirius EQ-G
Camera Hutech-modified Canon 350D
Exposure 19 x 600 second exposures
Guiding Orion StarShoot AutoGuider
Processing / Software MaxIm DL 4.58 and Adobe Photoshop 7.1
Notes I was pleasantly surprised to find modeling detail in the M110 (click here to see closer) companion galaxy seen to the right of M31.