Inspired by many others we tried to capture M31 with our own equipment, an old Fuji camera with a 80mm lens.

The only additional tool we used for this shot was a cheap used star tracker so we could expand each shot to 20s. We captured a total of 411 shots which leads to a total exposure time of about 2h17m.

For our first try we are very pleased with the result!

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Really nice shot!

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Thanks!

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Very great results, thank you for sharing!

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Thank you!

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That’s great. We can’t see andromeda much in Australia but I’ve always wanted to see it through a telescope

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In a few millions of years you can take a close up

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