M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy (greenbbs)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Triangulum (Tri) · Contains: M 33 · NGC 598 · Triangulum galaxy

Powered byPixInsight

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy

Powered byPixInsight

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy

So, this is my follow-up to my last galaxy, the ever-popular Andromeda (M31).

In the universe, there's tons of galaxies....and they live in groups. The group that the Milky Way and Andromeda live in is called the Local Group of Galaxies, which has those two, plus this one, known as the Triangulum Galaxy (or M33).

The Triangulum Galaxy lies in the constellation Triangulum (which, not suprisingly looks like a right triangle), and is found below the constellation Andromeda. If you look at that area of the sky, the galaxies Andromeda and Triangulum lie about equal distances away from Mirach (the really awesome, bright red star in the center of the constellation Andromeda). Of the 3 major galaxies in the Local Group (and there's about 54 total...most of them being dwarf galaxies or satellite galaxies like the Large and Small Magellanic clouds for the Milky Way and M32/M110 for Andromeda), the Triangulum is the smallest.

It lives a bit more than 2.5 million (!!!!) light years away, and has a diameter of 60,000 light years. It contains approximately 40 billion stars, where the Milky Way has approximately 400 billion and Andromeda has approximately a trillion (!)

It is spiral in structure, but not as organized as Andromeda or the Milky Way. There are numerous star forming regions in Triangulum, which look like the brighter spots in the photos (and they would equate to say, the Orion nebula in our night sky).

DETAILS:

Sony A6000, ISO 800

Stellarvue SV80ST f/6 refractor on a Celestron AVX mount

60 x 90 second shots (for a total of 90 minutes)

Stacked and heavy lifted in PixInsight, tuned up in Lightroom and Photoshop

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Basic success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	781103
PixInsight job	n/a
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information