Andromeda Galaxy (2nd)

This is my second ever attempt at shooting, editing, and compiling astrophotography. My first time trying was not great and I was finally able to get some semblance of rings as you can see with the somewhat visible ovals. This was very fun, but man do I need to get better at editing.

Equipment:

Cheap Tripod (Unknown Brand)
Sony A7III

Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 DG DN ART ii (Shot at 70mm)

Cheap amazon external shutter button

Acquisition:

Bortle 6 skies in Camas Washington

730 x 2.5 sec (27 min total)

(61 dark frames, same settings)

ISO: 3600

F/2.8

I used DeepSkyStacker to check the images, and threw out about 10 or so. Stacked all images over 15 minutes.

Moved to Siril, background extraction, applied deconvolution filter, denoise, used Asin for stretch, used histogram stretch for refinements to get the rings to pop more

Exported into Gimp and cropped there. Converted to JPG and here we are.

Overall very fun, I would love to hear any tips. I know the colors are a little off but I genuinely didnt know how to fix me all too well, and I was scared if I did so it would either get worse if I retry, or the rings would be less visible.