Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Triangulum (Tri)  ·  Contains:  M 33  ·  NGC 598  ·  Triangulum Galaxy  ·  Triangulum Pinwheel
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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Thorsten Glebe
M33 - Triangulum Galaxy
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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Thorsten Glebe
M33 - Triangulum Galaxy
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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

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Description

Using a small scope like the RedCat for galaxy imaging is not a promising approach, luckily M33 is just large enough to get a somewhat decent image. No filters were used and due to very good seeing conditions in the first night image processing turned out to be quite unproblematic, despite being in a Bortle 5 zone.

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  • M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Thorsten Glebe
    Original
  • M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Thorsten Glebe
    B
  • M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Thorsten Glebe
    C
  • M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Thorsten Glebe
    D
  • Final
    M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Thorsten Glebe
    E

B

Description: Deterministic reprocessing of the same data with almost identical workflow, but this time with drizzled data. With a very close inspection one can see a slight enhanced level of detail and of course better star shapes. The effect is not obvious, so I think one can usually omit drizzling, unless it is the goal to get all information out of the data.

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C

Description: Reprocessing of the same data including an additional 3h 30min of dual-narrowband data taken with the Optolong L-extreme filter. The narrowband data was taken under difficult conditions with moon and hazy sky, so I think there is still some potential to improve.

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D

Description: Reprocessing of the same RGB data with improved Pixinsight workflow and new narrowband data as the previous data turned out to be very bad quality.

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E

Description: Postprocessing can make a big difference. The M33 data are good quality, but my processing skills weren't. So I reprocessed it and I think the difference is like night and day.

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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Thorsten Glebe