A few late season galaxies - M101 and M33

[powerlord]

Shot last night.

asi533, c925+f6.3f

600sec subs. 20 for m101, 10 for m33.

 

 

Edited September 30, 2021 by powerlord

[paul mc c]

That's stunning.... 

[Laurieast]

Superb! 

Raising the bar.

[powerlord]

Yeh considering there was still around 1/2 a moon, and the seeing wasn't great looking at my FWHMs - which were in the 4-5s they came out better than I expected.

As I had to use only IR filter, I thought I'd get wiped out by light pollution.

[Richard_]

Very nice images, powerlord. If I take 300s subs with my ASI533 and Redcat 51 (f/4.9) I manage to saturate my stars and lose all star colour, so well done on keeping the star colour!

[tomato]

Great images, the moon is still a bit intrusive over the last few nights, and M101 currently unfortunately gets lower down as the night progresses. 
 

That’s a nice FOV for M101, I find my two options for this galaxy (Esprit 150 with G2-8300 or ASI 178) is either slightly too big or too close in.

[powerlord]

yeh m33 is too close in, but it was all i had. hadn't realised quite how mad m33 looked.

Once I'd edited I thought 'that cannot be right' - looked up wikipedia.. and huh.. it pretty much looks exactly like that.