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M33 from my backyard in upstate New York. I believe i captured around 10 hours on this one but only stacked the best 7. I captured all the data with the Redcat 51 and zwo asi 183mc pro. I moved from bortle 6/7 to bortle 3/4 a little over a year ago and it’s improved my Astro so much. I’ve tried to image this galaxy probably 5 times prior and never got a result I was happy with. The natural colors show so much more in dark skies. No crazy gradients to deal with in post. It’s been so much fun doing Astro again. Like it was when I just started. Anyway, I did the stacking and processing in Pixinsight. Shot it all without any filters.
Also I have to say using the Lukomatico galaxy processing technique has been amazing. It’s definitely helped me with getting results that I can live with.

Been working on this now for some weeks. This image in its current state here has just under 40 hours. Right now I have nearly 30 more hours of data to add to it at 67 hours total. The goal is to bring out the IFN as much as I can from my bortle 3/4 backyard. I’m using the Redcat 51 with the Zwo Asi 183mc pro. I got about half the data filter less and the rest with the Lpro. Been debating if I should get a nights worth of Lultimate data to bring the red hydro areas out. Be interested to hear if anyone here has an opinion?
I’m hoping to get to 100 hours before the good nebula show up again. Being galaxy season and shooting at 250mm there isn’t a whole bunch of good targets now.
Anyway, I did all the processing in Pixinsight. I recently started using a new technique to process galaxies. Well, not exactly new but new to me. I basically just hijacked the same process that Lukomatico uses.