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M33 - An on-going project, Michael Stevenson
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M33 - An on-going project

Revision title: Re-re-re-re-re-processed

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M33 - An on-going project, Michael Stevenson
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M33 - An on-going project

Revision title: Re-re-re-re-re-processed

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Description

I was able to add some more focal length to my arsenal this past December, acquiring a ZWO FF80. M33 seems to be a great object to photograph with this telescope coupled with my 533MC Pro, providing a great FOV.

I am planning to continually add revisions to this as more data is collected and processed. The initial images are with no filter and I would like to get ~10-15 hours of data in this state, and then may add 10-15 hours of dual narrowband. I know from past experiments that there are beautiful red details that present themselves with Ha.

Unfortunately my initial sessions have been plagued by the brightest moon that has ever existed and clouds. So many clouds. Clouds + moon == lots of rejected frames

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Title: M33, now with more data

Description: My M33 project continues. I was able to gather a few more hours of data with no filter, removed some additional bad subs. Next step, add some dual narrowband (and lets not forget the DBE this time).

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Title: Added dual narrowband data

Description: Captured several hours of dual narrowband data this past weekend. Still working through the processing, but this is where I am so far.

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Title: Re-re-re-re-re-processed

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M33 - An on-going project, Michael Stevenson