M33 Pinwheel Galaxy and M74 Phantom GalaxyBeautiful clear night on Sunday, crisp and frosty!
I wanted to try again at M33 with the ST80 and 1 minute exposures. I can't really go further than that with the mount because of star rotation. I'm not sure if Deepspacestacker will correct larger rotations.
Much more detail than my previous attempts, but I can't bring out the colour, probably because longer exposures are still needed. Still..i'm still amazed that I can capture this galaxy at all!
I am even more amazed to capture an image of M74 galaxy! This feint little object close to M33 has a magnitude greater than 10.0. Cannot even see it visually! You can see the shape of this spiral galaxy, but not much detail...i'm dead pleased with it though!
I've got to say that the Celestron SLR GoTo mount is brilliant, no way would I be able to find thse objects with my Skywatcher 130m. They are face-on spiral galaxies and are a sod to find!
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