17 Hours on The Triangulum (GiffS)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Triangulum (Tri) · Contains: M 33 · NGC 598 · Triangulum Galaxy · Triangulum Pinwheel

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17 Hours on The Triangulum

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The Triangulum Galaxy is some 2.73 million light years away. This image is the result of 3 nights work totaling over 17 hours of data. Officially the longest integration time of any target I have ever shot. I lost a few hours during the last data collection session due to a power outage of all things. It was a beautiful calm night with very good seeing and bam, the power goes out for around 40 minutes. At first, I was going to reset the rig, but I quickly realized that ALL THE NEIGHBOORHOOD LIGHTS WERE OFF! I had my 6SE set up running on battery, so I grabbed my laptop and started capturing Jupiter. When the power was restored I had to completely shutdown the DSO rig and start up from scratch so several hours lost. Pretty happy with the image, it's very clean noise wise. Processing is still an "area of improvement" as they say.

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Description: Started from the same result file generated by Siril for the previous version. The difference in the images is entirely due to the PixInsight and RC Astro software. Of course, those new (to me) tools means that my entire post processing workflow is different. There's no doubt that PixInsight is worth the investment in time and money. The same goes for RC Astro's incredible Xterminator plug ins. Just as a side note this image was processed using PI's new Gradiant Correction process. It does an amazing job.

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