36H Pinwheel from South Spain @ 1.22arsec/pix

[Boren]

It’s taken a long long time since my last image... life is tough and only 24 hours in a day. 
 

Here’s a rerun of an old gem - but this time done after 12 years of learning curve climbed. I like this result more than any other I’ve done. I hope you’ll like it too:

The image with explanations:

https://pbase.com/boren/image/170428062
 

The image with annotations:

https://pbase.com/boren/image/170428741

 

and check out all those tiny little galaxies throughout the image and through the galaxy’s arms.

 

Cheers,

Harel

 

[Beulah]

Absolutely stunning, Boren - understand totally about the lack of time to do what we enjoy! Life is getting more busy!

[ollypenrice]

Greetings, Harel, and welcome back.  That's a lovely M33.  I particularly like the muted colour because that's very much how I think it is.

Olly

[Boren]

Hi Olly, thanks so much and thank you for looking!

Yes I think you are right, All too many M33‘s are painted neon blue :-)) as you can see I’m treating these gems very very seriously. I’ve come to the conclusion that people start with imaging aiming their scopes and cameras at the known objects and then when up in the learning curve, they never return to those objects in favor of the “difficult” ones.
 

The state of affairs is that for that the known objects are lacking good professional renditions. I decided to change that, and return to each of them solemnly treating them as if they were truly and indeed “difficult”. And guess what? They are (if you want it really bring them out in their full glory, that is).

Thus I gave M33 36 hours and two months of processing, seeking to make it a loyal representation of the data, in color and detail, carefully “under processing” it at every step of the way. 
 

Warm wishes,

Harel

Edited February 23, 2020 by Boren