... Light left this Galaxy to be captured by anyone keen enough to be looking for it.
Its a huge photo, so I will provide a link:
http://home.comcast.net/~slitherjef/...o/m31frame.jpg
Over 2 million light years away in Andromeda is a Galaxy with the Catalog number, M31. I shot this data last year November 2007 with my 200mm lens and canon 30D. I shot 10 exposures from my back yard at 60sec each. I loaded the data in photoshop and went to work creating a decent image for what little data I had.
Well, tonight, since I was bored had a new stacking program that stacks the files for me. So I gave that a try, and with a little processing and the help from Noel Carboni's actions, I managed to come up with the above photo. Its not the full 10 images I fed into the program to stack, it rejected 5 of those frames, but I thought I would share anyway. Hope you enjoy