M33 The Triangulum Galaxy For 2022 (Jim Raskett)

M33 The Triangulum Galaxy For 2022

"Spiral galaxy M33 is located in the triangle-shaped constellation Triangulum, earning it the nickname the Triangulum galaxy. About half the size of our Milky Way galaxy, M33 is the third-largest member of our Local Group of galaxies following the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the Milky Way.
Blue-colored regions scattered throughout the image reveal numerous sites of rapid star birth in M33. In fact, Hubble’s observations reveal that the Triangulum galaxy’s star formation rate is ten times higher than the average found in the Andromeda galaxy
The Triangulum galaxy’s orderly spiral structure displays few signs of interactions with nearby galaxies. However, that could change in the future. Only slightly farther away from us than the Andromeda galaxy, about 3 million light-years from Earth, M33 is a suspected gravitational companion to Andromeda, and both galaxies are moving toward our own. M33 could become a third party involved in the impending collision between the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies more than 4 billion years from now".

Like most of us imagers, I have collected data on this target several times in my 5 or so years of imaging.M33 was one of the reasons that I began astrophotography, because I never caught more than a fleeting glimpse of slight patch of gray barely lighter than the background sky with my scope and eyepiece.
I have always found this target a tough process, no matter how much data I have collected.
In the past, my ending tone has always had a bluish-purplish cast to the galaxy and mid band areas of the galaxy are over sharpened (for my tastes) and ended up with a speckled look. I wanted a different outcome this time.I tried slightly different takes on the coloration.
This tone (coloration) was the product of a slight bump in the Curves “a” channel and it looked nice to me, so I ran with it.
I see several things that I would like to improve on in a revision soon and also plan to shoot some duo-band (L-eNhance) data to add more “pop” to the numerous Ha areas in this target (weather cooperating).

Thanks for looking and comments welcome!

Jim

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RA (center)	01h33m56s.97
RA (top/left)	01h39m15s.81
RA (top/right)	01h39m03s.17
RA (bottom/right)	01h28m30s.97
RA (bottom/left)	01h28m57s.74

Dec (center)	+30°38′38″.8
Dec (top/left)	+29°33′13″.4
Dec (top/right)	+31°47′21″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+31°43′14″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+29°29′05″.5

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