M74 Phantom Galaxy - Stellina LIVE - Rooster Inn Observatory - 2 September 2022

"A stunning face-on spiral galaxy, M74 was discovered in 1780 by Charles Messier’s observing assistant, the French astronomer Pierre Méchain. M74 is located roughly 32 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces. With an apparent magnitude of only 10, the galaxy appears as a faint patch of light through small telescopes. M74 is a perfect example of a grand-design spiral galaxy. Symmetrical spiral arms reach out from the galaxy’s central nucleus and are traced by winding dust lanes. The arms are dotted with clusters of young, blue stars and pink regions where the ultraviolet light from these young stars has ionized clouds of hydrogen and caused them to glow." Source: NASA.gov.

The Rooster Inn Observatory resides in Bortle 4 country in Upstate New York, and provides LIVE video streaming of astrophotography of sun and moon, stars and planets, galaxies and nebulae, comets and satellites. Four telescopes make up the observatory:
(1) Celestron Edge HD 8-inch on a CGEM II mount with a Canon EOS Rebel SL3 for planetary observation,
(2) Vaonis Stellina all-in-one observation station,
(3) Lunt LS50T Ha solar telescope on a Celestron 8SE alt-az mount for sun gazing, and
(4) Canon EOS 50D with a stock 55-250mm telephoto zoom lens on the same Celestron 8SE alt-az mount point and shoot lazy imaging.