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Seen nearly perfectly
            edge on, this Sa spiral galaxy beams softly in northern Andromeda
            at 10.8th magnitude, and spans over 15 arcminutes in length.
            The dust lane which lies in its equatorial plane can be seen
            clearly here, full of knots and fine pillars and dark lanes.
            The B-V index (Blue magnitude - Visual magnitude) is very ruddy
            at .88 which means basically this galaxy is quite yellow/red
            in coloration from the obscuring dust in its plane. 

            
Just to the lower
            left of the core, and touching the edge of this galaxy is a tiny
            companion object, MAC0222+4222 which is 16.5 magnitude and .4
            minutes in size. 

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Mount:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Water Cooling
Guider: Meade DSI Pro  w/Lumicon Newt Easy Guider
Exposure:  LRGB = 180:20:20:20 
AstroDon RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.05: 1.2
Location:  Payson, Arizona, Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 4.5 arcsec (Maxim DL - 10min subframe), Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature:  45 F
CCD Temperature:  -30 C
Image Processing Tools: 
Maxim DL:  Calibration, deblooming (Starizona Debloomer), aligning, stacking
PixInsight:  Curves, Deconvolution
Photoshop CS2:  Curves, Color Correction, Gradient removal (Grad Xterminator), Cleanup

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