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Faulkes Telescope Images

Deep Sky Objects - M 74, the Phantom.

Here are some images which were captured using the Faulkes Telescope North at the Going Nova Science Festival
which was held at Horizon Scotland at the Business Park in Forres in the north of Scotland.

The event ran from Thursday 10th November 2005 until Saturday 12th November.
During the Festival, the telescope was under the control of members of  the north of Scotland's two mainland astronomy clubs.
SIGMA, Moray's Astronomy Club and  Highlands Astronomical Society.

Designation
Date and Time
Exposures
M 74, a magnitude 9 face-on
spiral galaxy in Pisces.
Nov 11 2005
11.05 to 11.09
RGB filters, 45 seconds

EW
Eric Walker
EW
Eric Walker

Eric reprocessed this image by adding a Luminance Layer . This has  improved the signal to noise ratio and brought out the structure in the spiral arms and dust lanes without  overexposing the core of the galaxy.




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