North-America Nebula / NGC 7000

MessierNGC 327000

My best photo of the AndromedaNorth galaxyAmerica Nebula - Full resolution picture available on Telescopius
Details:
- Date: 22/Aug/20227/Jun/2025
- Exposures: 80x1min27x1min Lights, 10x1min Darks
- ISO: 16003200
 - Guiding: Yes
Equipment:
- Camera: Canon 6D
- Filters: SVBONY SV206 Light pollution filter
 - Telescope: SvbonyOrion ApochromaticNewtonian 80/4488"/790 mm SV503N 80ED Doublet (0.8x reducer/flattener)203/790
- Mount: EQ5Equatorial modifiedSky-Watcher EQ6 (Upgraded with OnstepOnStep)

Description

The AndromedaNorth GalaxyAmerica Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is aan barredemission spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224. Andromeda has a D25 isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years) and is approximately 765 kpc (2.5 million light-years) from Earth. The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's skynebula in which it appears, the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of Andromeda,the whichswan itselfand its brightest star) in the night sky. It is named afterbecause theits princessshape whoresembles wasNorth the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology.America.

Find more information about the AndromedaNorth GalaxyAmerica Nebula on Wikipedia

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Personal Stats

First observation

📆	19/08/2022
📍	Santa Cruz, Portugal

Imaging sessions

Date	Bortle Class	Total Exposure Time
22/16/8/2022	Class 45	2h50min (60x2min)50x1min)
22/8/7/6/2023	Class 45	1h20min27min (180x1min)27x1min)

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Photographs

My best photo of the AndromedaNorth galaxyAmerica Nebula - Full resolution picture available on Telescopius 
Details:
- Date: 22/Aug/20227/Jun/2025
- Exposures: 80x1min27x1min Lights, 10x1min Darks
- ISO: 16003200
 - Guiding: Yes
Equipment:
 - Camera: Canon 6D
 - Filters: SVBONY SV206 Light pollution filter
 - Telescope: Orion Newtonian 8"/790 mm N 203/790
 - Mount: Equatorial Sky-Watcher EQ6 (Upgraded with OnStep)

My first photo of the North America Nebula (reprocessed) - Full resolution picture available on Telescopius 
Details:
 - Date: 16/Aug/2025
 - Exposures: 50x1min Lights
 - ISO: 3200
 - Guiding: Yes
Equipment:
- Camera: Canon 6D
- TelescopeLens: SvbonyPentax ApochromaticLens 80/448200 mm SV503Super 80EDTakumar Doublet (0.8x reducer/flattener)200mm
- Mount: EQ5Unknown modifiedEQ2 (Modified with OnstepOpenAstroMount)