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Triangulum Galaxy M33

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Triangulum Galaxy M33

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M33 has been on my To-Do list for the last couple years, and a little clearing around the new moon this month presented itself. Seeing and transparency were not the best during the main imaging run, so I was not necessarily expecting too much, but I like the result considering the conditions. When I saw that I had something useable on the first night, I decided to add a couple hours of narrowband data to blend in. The blending was my discovery and first experience with PI's NBRGB-Combination script; I think it worked (I used about 3.0 for the narrowband scaling). After a few attempts to do sufficient background smoothing, I managed a result that makes the Ha region show well. The outer bands will never show up as clearly for me in Bortle 7-8 as they do for those in darker skies, but it is a good result for the fall season as we got our first snowfall today.

Just for fun, I'm uploading one of the first images I tried to take in astrophotography almost exactly two years ago (revision B).

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Description: One of my first astrophotography image attempts (2019-11-08).

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Triangulum Galaxy M33, matthew.maclean