Friday, November 1, 2019

M33 - Triangulum Galaxy - Revised 11/1/2019




The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum.  It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598.  the Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Wand and the Andromeda Galaxy.  It is one of the most distatn permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.

Image is a stack of 48 two minute sub-images taken with a StarLight Express SXVR-M25C camera mounted to an Astro-Tech AT6RC scope with an Astro-Tech ATFF-2 field flattener.  Nebulosity v4.3 was used for capture, calibration, stacking, combining, color balance and noise reduction.  Final image processing was done in Photoshop CS5. The scope was mounted on a Celestron CI-700 using PDH2 v2.6.6dev2 autoguiding software with a Meade DSI Pro camera mounted on an 80mm guide/finder scope.  Images were taken at the 2019 Okie-Tex Star Party near Kenton, OK.

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