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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Pam Whitfield
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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Pam Whitfield
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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

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Description

Took the opportunity to ditch the UHC filter at a public star-party at Norris State Park and revisit M33 with the 102mm scope, guiding, and improved polar-alignment with the PoleMaster - a great little gizmo.

Was a bit windy so the guiding has hard-pressed to keep up - not great seeing either. Headlights and comings and goings of different groups of school-children lead to only 1hr of usable data before I had to leave but nice to see it so busy.

Didn't push over 300s subs due to the comings and goings although the sky was dark enough to go further.

I'm not 100% satisfied with the processing on this one but I can't spend all day on it. Some odd features in some stacking scenarios and the sky is too black. I'll have another go at it at a later date.

12x 300subs at 800iso

18 flats, 8 darks + bias

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Description: I said at the time I'd reprocess this at some point - no point hurrying these things.....
Restacked with an additional 15mins of frames for 75 minutes total in APP.

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Description: Bit of experiment to see how far I could push this while sorting out the colour - quite a bit it seems!

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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Pam Whitfield

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