Almost exactly a year ago I took my first astrophoto that I was ready to share. It was one step beyond usual wide field milky way shots or a moon shot taken with a telephoto lens.
It was a photo of the Andromeda galaxy. I never thought I could snap something 2.5 million light years away with my Fujifilm X-T5 with an old 180mm Nikon lens on a DIY 3d-printed tracking mount.
That shot hooked me.
Now, a year later, I pointed my telescope to the same target. I didn't have a lot of time, so it is still only about 3 hours of total integration time. Still way more than 48 minutes of the first photo. Here is the new photo. Roll the mouse over to see the photo from a year ago.
To me the most interesting thing is that the difference in details of the galaxy itself is not that big. Maybe next year, I should spend couple of nights collecting data and revisit this post.