My own Astrophotography
Galaxies

Galaxies are very exiting, other islands of stars out there. Some of them are relative bright and I can take photos of them from our light polluted balcony. The Andromeda Galaxy is 3 degrees wide, that is 6 times wider than our Moon. You can use a 200 mm or longer telephoto lens when photographing this galaxy, with a telescope even more details.

More to read about galaxies at Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Galaxy

Galaxies

IC 342	IC 4020

M31 Andromeda Galaxy	M33 Triangulum Galaxy	M51 Galaxy

M63	M64 Black Eye Galaxy	M65, M66, NGC 3628 Leo Triplet Galaxies

M81 & M82	M86	M87

M94	M95, M96, M105 Leo I group Galaxies

M101 Pinwheel Galaxy	M102	M106

M109

NGC 4111 and cluster	NGC 4236	NGC 4435, M84, M86, M87 Eyes Galaxies

NGC 4874 Coma Cluster

NGC 5907

UGC 10822 Draco Warf

Comments:

If I had taken those photographs today (2022) I would use the following of my equipment.

Camera	Lens / Telescope	Reducer / Barlow	Mount	Comment
Canon 6D	TS130, 910 mm	x1 to x2	SkyWatcher EQ6	Small galaxies
Canon 6D	Pentax 300 mm	x1	SkyWatcher HEQ5	M31 and M33 galaxy

Only the M31 Andromeda and M33 Triangulum galaxy is big enough for my Pentax 300 mm lens. Most galaxies need long time exposures, something like 60 x 1-4 minute to reduce the noise.

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My own Astrophotography
Galaxies