M74 The Phantom Galaxy (Michelle Bennett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Pisces (Psc) · Contains: M 74 · NGC 628

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M74 The Phantom Galaxy

Images were taken over two nights from my Bortle 2 back yard last week. My chosen target was still behind a tree, and not wanting to waste a dark night for RGB work I thought I'd try a galaxy! My husband loves galaxies so he is very happy.

It's called the "Phantom" galaxy due to its low surface brightness ( visual magnitude 9.4).
It really is a stunning example of a grand design spiral galaxy.
This was 3 hours of luminance, and 1 hour each of RGB. If I could just get another 100 hours it might start to look a bit like the amazing Hubble images I found of this target ! Sometimes we have to be content with what we can get :-).

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RA (center)	01h36m40s.469
RA (top/left)	01h37m21s.204
RA (top/right)	01h37m17s.630
RA (bottom/right)	01h35m59s.999
RA (bottom/left)	01h36m03s.959

Dec (center)	+15°46′54″.42
Dec (top/left)	+15°35′22″.70
Dec (top/right)	+15°59′13″.45
Dec (bottom/right)	+15°58′26″.60
Dec (bottom/left)	+15°34′35″.21

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