The Pinwheel Galaxy (M33)

on Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The image is of the Triangulum Galaxy, M33, which is almost dead east and 70 degrees up at 11:30pm this month.  I lost 79 of the 100 exposures I shot due to condensation on my optics.  However, November should be colder and clearer (I hope), so I will try it again then.

 

M33 Triangulum Galaxy

Date: 11/12 October, 2012

Time:  11:22pm – 11:47pm

Original resolution 5184 x 3456 in Adobe RAW format (No compression)

Location: 32.603898N x 86.990532W

Temperature: 61 degrees F

Canon 550d (T2i) w/Magic Lantern

750mm F5 Newtonian w/Coma Corrector (Modified Celestron CG-5 mount)

21 Light exposures (60sec @ ISO800)

35 Dark exposures (60sec @ ISO 800)

21 Flat exposures (using clear sky light @ 90 degrees @ sunset through cotton)

35 offset/bias exposures (1/4000th sec @ ISO 800)

Autoguided with Celestron NexGuider on a 600mm F6 refractor

Images aligned, normalized, and stacked with DeepSkyStacker 3.2.2

Curves adjusted with Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0.0.0

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