That day I caught a window between cloudy skies to observe Andromeda Galaxy.

The first of all I located it with my binoculars, that means that even with aperture as small as 50mm real deep sky object is available for observation.

Then I had a time to attach my camera to telescope and take a couple of shots of Andromeda Galaxy and M32 galaxy.

Camera JPEG 1 sec exposure ISO 6400

Camera JPEG 4 sec exposure ISO 6400

Short 1 sec exposure seems to be quite low to get acceptable SNR in order to distinguish objects with relatively low magnitude, especially after exposure compensation.

Exposure compensation + denoise

Exposure compensation + denoise

The interesting fact is that when I started to process images, I understood that images that were taken as “preliminary shot” look better then actual target shots. At least M32 may be distinguished of stars.





After a short time all sky was covered with clouds so this was a point to stop.