M74 #2 (Molly Wakeling)

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

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This is galaxy M74, located 32 million lightyears behind the constellation Pisces. It's quite dim, and it was a bit of a struggle to pull it away from the background noise! Home to about 100 billion stars, it's 95,000 lightyears across, just a little smaller than our own galaxy. It's face-on from our perspective and has a fairly large angular size for a galaxy, which has made it a good target for studying spiral arm structure.

Typically, you don't want to totally kill your background in astronomical images -- it looks more natural to have some background light, and there are usually faint structures buried there, whether that's other galaxies, streamers from the galaxy being imaged, etc. However, there was a really large amount of noise that had a weirdly large structure, and it was hard to reduce because of how close to the noise the galaxy was. So it's a darker background than I would normally like. However, I'm quite happy with the color I got in the galaxy!

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RA (center)	01h36m38s.34
RA (top/left)	01h34m24s.62
RA (top/right)	01h34m29s.46
RA (bottom/right)	01h38m51s.59
RA (bottom/left)	01h38m48s.31

Dec (center)	+15°47′41″.6
Dec (top/left)	+16°32′01″.4
Dec (top/right)	+15°02′30″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+15°03′12″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+16°32′45″.5

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