| ING Media Archival Record |
| ITEM REFERENCE | 1539 |
| PERMANENT LINK | https://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?1539 |
| EXTACCESS | yes |
| COLLECTION | Image archive |
| TITLE | M74 |
| KEYWORDS | Galaxies;Galaxies;High-quality images;Messier |
| DATE | 2021-03-21 |
| DESCRIPTION | M74, a spiral galaxy similar to our own, seen face-on, at a distance of 30 million light years, imaged with the QHY camera at the WHT PF. R filter focus 0.55 FWHM=0.5 5 imgsx60s runs; G filter focus ~0.55 FWHM=0.6-0.7 5 imgsx60s runs; B filter focus ~0.55 FWHM=0.7 5 imgsx60s Halpha focus 0.72 (difficult!) FWHM=1.5 15 imgsx60. All runs taken with dithers. Composite RGB image (Deepskystacker + gimp + rawtherapee) and with a touch of wavelets (Registax). N left, E up. |
| CREDIT | Ovidiu Vaduvescu, Jure Skvarc and Norberto Gonzalez (ING) |
| TELESCOPE | WHT |
| INSTRUMENT | PF-QHY |
| THUMB_200 | 
https://www.ing.iac.es/PR/science/M74_QHY_200.png |
| AVAILABLE FILES | JPG (1.9M) 4480×2886 pixels
PNG (898K) 1098×727 pixels |
| TIMESTAMP | 2024-09-01 10:00:21 |
| USAGE | For publication or display (electronic or otherwise), all photos, images or videos must be credited: "Photo/image/video courtesy of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma" unless otherwise noted in the provided credit line. Please contact ING's Public Relations Officer (outreach  ing.iac.es) with all the details of the use. |
