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I got to see it with my own eyes for the first time!! It looked like a gray oval-ish but slightly pointy smudge. But it’s a cool smudge in the sky!!
This is a phone pic with a 2s exposure and ISO cranked up to it’s max, 3200. The rainbow snow is random noise from my sensor magnified by turning the sensitivity up very high. You can even see M32 as a slightly fuzzy star almost directly above Andromeda’s core!
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Everything was very blurry today and I kept wondering why focusing didn’t seem to fix it before realizing it was cloudy.
My custom Pico Bluetooth picture taking button worked great though!
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I got the Andromeda galaxy!!!
Aiming the telescope was a nightmare. “I’ll use a star app to aim!” I thought. I tried downloading Stellarium, it complained about a Google Play error. I downloaded SkEye, and it had some weird gyro issues because it expected the phone to be pointing in the same direction as the telescope, but I use my phone camera to take pics so it was mounted sideways looking at the telescope’s eyepiece.
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