galaxies / 2026-02-18
Andromeda Galaxy
M31
Andromeda is a familiar target, but it never really feels routine. The frame holds a neighbouring galaxy, satellite companions, foreground stars from our own Milky Way and the quiet patience of repeated exposures gathered over an ordinary night.
This image is a placeholder record for the finished archive style: the photograph leads, while technical notes stay close enough to be useful without becoming a dashboard.
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- telescope
- Wide-field refractor
- camera
- Dedicated cooled astronomy camera
- filters
- Broadband RGB
- exposure
- Multiple calibrated subframes
- location
- Back-garden observatory
- software
- PixInsight and custom logging tools