M31

This is my first attempt at the Galaxy, still incredibly new to this hobby. This is only my second target after tackling Orion.

213 light frames at 30 second each for a total of 106.5 minutes of integration. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker with 40 darks, 25 flats, and 50 bias frames.

Gear:

Unmodded Canon Rebel t6i

Rokinon 135mm Lens @ f2.8

Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTI

Processing:

Stacked in DSS.

Background extraction, green noise reduction, and banding reduction performed in Siril. Small stretches applied to dark and light samples of the image.

Fully stretched in gimp with minor exposure and saturation adjustments.