M33

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Object Name: M33 Pinwheel Galaxy

Observation Info

Imaging Info

- Date/Time: 2011-09-03

- Camera: Canon XSi (450d) - unmodified

- Location: Independence Mountain, Colorado

- Scope/Lens: Explore Scientific 102ED f/7 Triplet

- Limiting Magnitude:

- Optical path: Astro-Tech Field Flattener 
- Seeing: - Filter(s):
- Transparency: - ISO Setting/Film: 
- Temp./Wind: - Exposure time, #: 6min, 25 frames

NOTES:

Mount:        Orion Sirius EQ-G
Autoguider: KWIQ Guider
Capture Software: Nebulosity
Guide Software: PHD Guiding
Processed with Bad Pixel Mapping and Flats in Nebulosity, final tweaks in PS

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Played with my M33 data collected last Friday night / Saturday morning on Independence Mountain.  Used dark subtraction instead of bad pixel mapping, kept the flats.  Cropped it down to hold just the galaxy, rotated it 90 degrees CCW – it matches the orientation I typically see in other images on the web.

Preprocessing & stacked in Nebulosity
Stretched, color balance, curves, unsharp mask - all done in PS.

 


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