M 74 (NGC 628) Galaxy in Pisces

Located at: RA 01 hours 36 minutes 42 seconds, Dec +15 degrees 47 minutes 00 seconds

Size: 10.5' x 9.5'; Magnitude: 10.0 blue; Class: SA(s)c

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

 ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 500 minutes (50 x 10 minute subs), 12/21/29/2007, seeing 3.2-5.6 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 1.3.2, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Notes:

This images replaces a 282 minute unfiltered sequence from 01/10 & 01/12/206