M74

This is the face-on spiral galaxy M74 in Pisces.

StellarVue 152 mm refractor, Nikon D810A camera, astrophysics Mach2 GTO Tracking Mount, guiding camera, scope and software.

I had to choose a date and time for this photo, but it was actually taken over many nights. I gathered 244 300-second images of this over about 6 nights, for a total of more than 20 hours of exposure time. I stacked them together and processed the resulting image in PixInsight, first separating the stars from the faint nebulosity and later recombining them.