
Here’s an old and evergreen deep-sky classic… M31, aka the Great Andromeda Galaxy, taken during my 2014 stay at Colle dell’Agnello, a pass in the Italian Alps on the border with France, located at a whopping (at least by European standards ) 2700 m elevation. Worth noting is the fact that this picture was made with a PC-less, fully stand-alone setup: Canon 6D + Pentax 75 OTA riding an Avalon M-Zero mount, autoguiding and exposure timing with a Lacerta MGEN stand-alone […]
By Emmanuele Sordini
Astronomy: images
8 September 2015
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