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The Andromeda Galaxy

I was very interested to make another picture of the Andromeda Galaxy after my last quick attempt were I was admittedly just beginning to find my feet on this well photographed night sky target. Here is my second attempt at the Andromeda Galaxy, and in this one a much closer view than I have shown before. Learning all the time, and being very interested in for the most part, realism of the night sky (including colour accuracy) I processed this to try and show the natural colour of Andromeda. The final result is admittedly subdued compared with typical images we see of the Andromeda Galaxy. Often many of the images we see online of this target involve usage of things like colour balance tools, overuse of saturation and selective colour in photoshop (there are other culprates which mangle natural colour also). I have avoided using any of these tools and processed with a carefully colour managed workflow. Why have I done this? I think there are too many false colour images of the night sky out there and I believe that the universe deserves a chance to be represented a bit more accurately. Everyone will have their own opinion on this and are free to do what they wish with their own images. Is this image perfect? Of course not. Like everyone I continue to learn day by day...

If you look carefully into this one, you can observe hints of the the irregularly shaped faint halo extending well beyond the elliptical galaxy. NASA has already confirmed this extends out a phenomenal distance from the galaxy. We see it here as a glow around Andromeda. The smaller 'fuzzy' satellite galaxy below Andromeda in this image, called NGC 205, is warping the outer disc of Andromeda (I checked this from a NASA scientific paper!). In this picture we can almost faintly see the tidal gravitiational force acting between them via the faint glow seen.

Image taken in my backyard in Perthshire, Scotland.
Explored on Flickr 1st February 2023.

Taken on: January 30, 2023

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