Detail in Andromeda��I’ve been spending hundreds of hours this fall gazing into the spiral arms of Andromeda across the entire visual spectrum with my CDK24 at ~4,000mm focal length. It takes a lot of time and patience to collect the data, but I find it endlessly fascinating to see details of complex star formation and evolution happening at this galactic scale where we see a span of a spiral arm thousands of lightyears across but have the advantage of seeing it from outside of the galactic disc. The distance of 2.5 million lightyears makes it challenging to resolve fine details, but the perspective is so amazing since even life within Andromeda would struggle to see this as it it would be embedded in the disc the way we are in our own Milky Way.
I’ll be sharing a lot of these data sets over the coming months, but wanted to share just a small sneak peek at section of one of the frames. This is processed in an SHO palette showing an absolute circus of star formation and interaction. Andromeda is so ALIVE!
Let me know what you think!
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