ROAST ::

August 28. A near-total lunar eclipse should have been visible in the early hours, but when the alarm woke us up the sky was completely clouded over. And even the promised lightning display never turned up. Doh.

So here’s another go at processing the Triangulum Galaxy, M 33:

M 33 seems a rather hard target to process, given it’s one of the brightest and closest galaxies. Here I’ve tried unsharp-masking the Astro filtered images from August 14 (radius 2, contrast boost 300, threshold 2). It’s better, but there’s still a lack of detail.

Details:
Target: Triangulum Galaxy (M 33, NGC 598)
Equipment: Dwarf Mini, Astro filter, perfect EQ
Time: 2026-08-14 23:33-02:28
Integration: 2hrs 21mins (141×60secs, +19 failures), gain 60
Conditions: Clear, Bortle 6
Processing: PhotoDesk equalisation, unsharp mask

And so to bed…