A beautiful night

September 2th 2013, what a memorable night! Perfect seeing: it was easily to distingish, by naked eye, many details in the Milky Way. I pointed my C8 towrds the center of the Andromeda Galaxy obtaining these images of the galactic nucleus:

M31 - Andromeda galactic nucleus

Canon at the prime focus of C8 (tracking not guided)

160x30 sec frames , 50 dark , ISO 800 

stacked with DSS and elaborated with Gimp

M31 - Andromeda galactic nucleus

Canon at the prime focus of C8 (tracking not guided)

160x30 sec + 40x60 sec frames (tot 2h expo) , 50 dark , ISO 800 

stacked with DSS and elaborated with Gimp