First test using Dithering with the MGEN. If Dithering (Random Displacement) is on, the MGENII slightly moves the RA axis of the mount between the shots. The moving amount value is setup in pixels and can be found in main menu – Random Displace – Width.

280mm @ f/5.6

65 subs total. Minus 5 subs with airplanes/satellites, minus 4 subs at the end of the session, because I lost the guide star which resulted immediately in star trails due to the PE of my Star Adventurer.
All other subs were perfect 🙂

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The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. It received its name from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which was named after the mythological princess Andromeda.

Being approximately 220,000 light years across, it is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way, the Triangulum Galaxy, and about 44 other smaller galaxies. Despite earlier findings that suggested that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and could be the largest in the grouping, the 2006 observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that Andromeda contains one trillion (1012) stars: at least twice the number of stars in the Milky Way, which is estimated to be 200–400 billion.

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