Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pisces (Psc)  ·  Contains:  M 74  ·  NGC 628
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M74, Rob Johnson
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I'm trying to improve my images by taking longer exposures but sometimes this does take a long time before an image is complete which is the case with this image, very frustrating! M74 is a grand design face on spiral some 30Mly away with a low apparent surface brightness. The spiral arms appear to have many star forming regions judging by the many red Ha emission regions in this image. M74 has seen 3 supernovae in the past 20 years, unfortunately I didn't catch one 
(My Bortle dark sky changed to 7 from 8 recently in the 'Clear Outside' app not sure why, I can't see any more stars!)

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