Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pisces (Psc)  ·  Contains:  M 74  ·  NGC 628
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M74

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M74

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
10" f/4 (Lacerta Photonewton)
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600MM COOL
Mounts
AZ-EQ6
Filters
Astronomik LRGB 31mm
Software
Adobe Photoshop · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Skywatcher 9x50 finder
Guiding Cameras
MGEN

Acquisition details

Dates:
Oct. 24, 2019
Frames:
216×180(10h 48′)
Integration:
10h 48′
Avg. Moon age:
25.37 days
Avg. Moon phase:
18.33%

RA center: 01h36m43s.851

DEC center: +15°4709.58

Pixel scale: 0.824 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: -89.028 degrees

Field radius: 0.267 degrees

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Resolution: 1864x1406

File size: 1.1 MB

Locations: my little astrofarm, Weppersdorf, Austria

Data source: Traveller

Description

M74, the beautiful open SA galaxy in Pisces, rather big in size but with less surface brightness. Distinct arms and lots of blue star knots and pinkish HII regions. The field is full of small and distant galaxies, a few of them ring galaxies.

LRGB with my 10" f/4 workhorse, the sharpest subframes were stacked separately and mixed in to achieve best sharpness in the bright regions.

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