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M33 Triangulum Galaxy (PixInsight Edit), Fabian Butkovich
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M33 Triangulum Galaxy (PixInsight Edit)

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M33 Triangulum Galaxy (PixInsight Edit), Fabian Butkovich
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M33 Triangulum Galaxy (PixInsight Edit)

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I recently became a user of the popular PixInsight, as a result it's lead me to go back through some of my previous DSO aquisitions as re-process them using it.

This image is from my 2023 aqusition of the Triangulum Galaxy, comprising 23 hours of signal integration. 

One process feature which has been incredibly useful and I feel I'm becoming "addicted" to is BlurXterminator, which in this image helped correct my stars superbly, as my tracking had been very poor throughout my data set. 

Interestingly, this was a difficult image to edit, as it's actually comprising of two different focal length stacks, one taken at 400mm with 6 hours of integration, and one taken at 600mm with 16 hours of integration. I was able to blend the two versions together in Adobe Photoshop after my perquisite process steps in PI. 

I look forward to adding further to this image once I start collecting more data on M33 in the 2024 season for Andromeda and Triangulum.

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M33 Triangulum Galaxy (PixInsight Edit), Fabian Butkovich