M33 Test Post

About the Target:

Object Information

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✨ Constellation: Triangulum

🚀 Distance: 2.878 Million Light Years

This deep sky object is a face-on spiral galaxy designated Messier 33 by Charles Messier.

Capture Details

🔭 Equipment: Altair Astro Hypercam 585M Mono TEC Cooled USB3 Astronomy Camera, Antlia LRGB-V Pro series filters – 1.25”, Celestron EdgeHD 11″ Schmidt-Cassegrain

📅 Session: January 19-22, 2026

📸 Exposure: Luminance: 50 x 120s

💻 Software: Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy, PHD2 Guiding, Pixinsight

PixInsight Processing

Startiing with WBPP and using the auto crop feature