Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pisces (Psc)  ·  Contains:  M 74  ·  NGC 628
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An Elusive Phantom (M74), estabrook
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An Elusive Phantom (M74)

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An Elusive Phantom (M74)

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The Phantom Galaxy (M74).  898 x 20s for about 5 hours integration.  

With the moon out of the way for a few nights, I figured I’d go after a relatively bright broadband target—perhaps a Messier object.  I choose a galaxy, M74, assuming that it would be big and bright since Messier was able to detect it.  Alas, it was super dim--turns out, it's sometimes called the Phantom Galaxy--and even after five hours across two nights, the signal was difficult to pull from the abundant noise in my Bortle 8 yard.  So this is more of a good start than a final product, and I hope to add data in the future.  (Bonus meteor added at no extra charge!)

(Captured: C6, Alt-Az, Hyperstar, ASI183MC Pro, Optolong L-Pro filter. Processed: Photoshop, Star Xterminator, Gradient Xterminator, and Topaz DeNoise AI.)

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