Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Triangulum (Tri)  ·  Contains:  M 33  ·  NGC 595  ·  NGC 598  ·  NGC 604  ·  Triangulum Galaxy  ·  Triangulum Pinwheel
M33, Mollenberg Observatory
M33
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M33

M33, Mollenberg Observatory
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M33

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M33 reprocessed. I did several sessions on #messier33 Triangulum Galaxy last autumn, it is one of my favorite targets, but I was never really happy with the result. It's now apparent that the problem was not hardware or conditions, but post-processing (err, me 🙈). This new edit is the same 64x300 second subframes, taken on the night of September 10th, 2020.

This whirlpool galaxy in Triangulum is one of our closest galactic neighbors at a mere 2.73 million light years away. It has a diameter of 60,000 ly, that's about 2/3 the size of the #milkyway. With an angular size of 70x41 minutes of sky, it is larger than the full moon but quite dim. This image was taken with the open source imaging software, #ninastronomy, stacked in APP, and post processed this time in PixInsight.

#galaxy#astrophotography#astronomy#dso#deepskystacker#deepsky#nightimages#nightskyphotography#nasa#esa#spiralgalaxy#messierobjects#astrophotography#explorescientific#ninaastronomy#asi294mcpro#zwo#optolong#celestron#nasa#spacex#space#longexposure#universetoday#nightimages#night_shooterz#earthsky#stellarium#milkyway#space

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