Another M33

[Mickoid (Michael)]

Keeping in with the low northerly target theme, here's an M33 I took last week from the northerly fringe of Melbourne suburbia. I got 27 minutes on this through the murk because the dew got too heavy from my location. As a result, my planned 1 hour of 2 min guided subs got reduced to 22 minutes, plus a rushed unguided 10 subs at 30 seconds to add to the mix. The 2 min guided subs were at 800 iso and the 30 second unguided subs were at 3200 iso, as a result the image turned out a bit noisy and rather dim but I'm happy I got something

Taken with a modded Canon 550d through a SW Esprit 100 on a HEQ5 mount

[Startrek (Martin)]

Michael
I’m amazed you could even expose the spiral arms and detailed core with only 27mins of data
Good capture considering limited time , poor conditions and punching through all that thick atmosphere at low altitudes
Hope you get some better nights ahead
Well done !

[Ant0nio (Tony)]

That's a gem Michael, colours are beautiful & your precious 27mins of data gently processed to perfection. Very nicely done.
Best,
Tony

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

Really enjoying seeing every ones efforts on M33 and M31 for that matter. That is a nice lot of detail for such a short total exposure time, congrats on the image and processing Michael.

[xelasnave]

Looks great. Excellent colour nice detail and I am amazed that you nailed it given LP and how low it must present to you.
Alex

[Mickoid (Michael)]

Thanks Martin, Alex, Jeff and Tony, I am humbled by your compliments. I'm glad you liked the image. Processing software these days can save a night of less than ideal data. I mainly use PS to process my images and depending on the object, STs and sometimes a combination of both. STs does a great job on noise reduction.

[ChrisV (Chris)]

I'm with Martin on this. Getting those spiral arms with less than half an hour of integration is amazing. Nice one

[Mickoid (Michael)]

Thanks Chris.