hey folks

tonight was the night! I went to andromeda!!!!!!!! the closest galaxy to us! hopefully I will conquer it soon..its only a matter of dark skies and I will take it down completely

I tried 4 times...here is the close to good I can do..but im not quitting im going to retry the 60 frames and hopefully today.. I will another 60 to get the spiral arms!..but I just don't know how to solve the gradient in the image...

Exposure details of M31:
60 frames
ISO 400
2 min per frame
shot started at approximate 45'degrees...I don't know when it ended cause I slept

20 flats
20 darks(taken from NGC 6888 of last week due to certain laziness)

First shot:
Deepsky stacker..with kappa sigma mean 4 sigma 1 iterations
sent to photoshop and stretched 3 times....finally using Noel's carboni's tools to get the spiral nearly visible

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=gmjzqjdehzz&thumb=6