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M33 - the triangulum galaxy (again and better)
finally i've taken this image with the big "old-new" mount, a Losmandy G11 "upgraded" with HQ Motors and StarGo controller from the italian Avalon.
I wasn't so lucky in this 2018, so this result is very important for me, is good for morals and especially because and given the weight of the mount (difficult for me as astro-traveler) and given the unfortunate weather on the weekends i finally took a good chance to shoot in a beautiful night (SQM ~ 21.15) , hurray! :)
it's about 4 hours of total integration time, with LRGB (200/300 sec each) and H-alpha 7nm baader (500sec)
The TOA is an RC8 reduced and corrected with 0.67x (~1200mm F.L.)
Guiding with lacerta mgen, processing with PixInsight and PS
astrobin: www.astrobin.com/384870/
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
The galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and it is believed to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy due to their interactions, velocities and proximity to one another in the night sky. It also has an H-II nucleus.
...more @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulum_Galaxy
M33 - the triangulum galaxy (again and better)
finally i've taken this image with the big "old-new" mount, a Losmandy G11 "upgraded" with HQ Motors and StarGo controller from the italian Avalon.
I wasn't so lucky in this 2018, so this result is very important for me, is good for morals and especially because and given the weight of the mount (difficult for me as astro-traveler) and given the unfortunate weather on the weekends i finally took a good chance to shoot in a beautiful night (SQM ~ 21.15) , hurray! :)
it's about 4 hours of total integration time, with LRGB (200/300 sec each) and H-alpha 7nm baader (500sec)
The TOA is an RC8 reduced and corrected with 0.67x (~1200mm F.L.)
Guiding with lacerta mgen, processing with PixInsight and PS
astrobin: www.astrobin.com/384870/
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
The galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and it is believed to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy due to their interactions, velocities and proximity to one another in the night sky. It also has an H-II nucleus.
...more @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulum_Galaxy