I am an early bird - no pun intended - and so I wake up at the crack of dawn, most days! As that is so I have been working on these two images recently, CED 207 being pretty rare and I hope what I have produced honours it, especially as it is an object Steve really likes! I think CED stands for Cederbald... CED 207 comprises of 346 one minute long exposures and thus an imaging time of 5 hours 46 minutes. Messier 31 comprises of 79 two minute long exposures, thus totalling an imaging time of 2 hours and 38 minutes. I really like these objects and whilst M31 is so familiar, to see it hovering in space in a widefield context is really special.
Pier 4 is a ZWO ASI-2066MC Pro OSC, with a Sigma 105mm f/1.4 lens stopped to F/2, an Astromechanics focuser, guided with a ZWO ASI-120 Mini and ZWO Mini guide scope, on an Astro Physics AP900 GTo3 mount. The mount actually runs unguided, so the guide scope is in there only as a backup.