Andromeda - M31

[Bob Israel]

I know it's been way too long since I've visited here. I have not been active online as much, and I have a lot of catching up.

I took out my Seestar S30 Pro two nights ago and figured to shoot something relatively easy . . . M31 Andromeda Galaxy to re-initiate myself to astrophotography. It was also a chance to try out AstroWizard by Lucomatico. I have to say, AstroWizard makes processing stacked images very straightforward. He's also developed a stacking component which is still in beta but already does a remarkable job.

This image is comprised of 660 images at 30s each or 5.5 hours of data collected in one evening. Images were stacked and stretched in Astrowizard and finished in Lightroom classic.

Here's hoping y'all welcome me back with open arms.

Bob

 

[JimFox]

Hey Bob!

It's great to see you back! I know you are always busy, which is great. But... we have missed you!

And coming back with this M31 is awesome. This looks super nice! Really a lot of nice detail, the right color in all the right places. So great job with this.

Yeah, AstroWizard looks great. Lukomatico has long been my favorite Astro guy with YouTube videos on Astrophotography, so it's great to see come from him, and I am not surprised. While lot's of Astro guys who do tutorial videos on Astro bury a person in detail after detail, Luke has a great way of keeping it simple, which is why I always referred him to people new in astrophotography.

So I am not surprised that he came out with a tool that is also about keeping things simple to help new astrophotographers and also perhaps those who aren't new, but simply don't have the time for a more traditional Pixinsight workflow.

I haven't downloaded Astrowizard yet, though I do plan on it at some point.