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| Acquisition: |
| Date: 09/11/2007 |
| Location: Golden Grove, Western Australia |
| Optics: Skywatcher 200mm f/5 Newtonian |
| Camera: Modified Canon EOS 350D (low-pass filter removed) |
| Filter/other: Astronomik UV-IR Block L, MPCC |
| Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Skyscan |
| Focus: DSLRFocus |
| Guiding: PHDGuide, Celestron NexImage, 70mm f/12 refractor |
| Exposure: 38 x 240 ISO 800 (2.5 hours Total) |
| Processing: |
| DeepSkyStacker: Calibration, Median Kappa-Sigma clipping stacking |
| Photoshop CS2: levels, colour balance, curves, saturation, scaling, jpeg conversion |
| Noiseware: Noise reduction |
| Comments: |
My second attempt at M33 in 2 years. Windy conditions and polar alignment was way off. Average temperature for the night was around 16-20 degree celcius, resulting in a lot of noise to process out. Overall improvement over my last attempt. |
| Pinwheel Galaxy (M33) |
| Constellation Triangulum |
| 3.00 Mly |
| Magnitude 7.00 |