Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Triangulum (Tri)  ·  Contains:  M 33  ·  NGC 598  ·  Triangulum galaxy
M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Jim Tallman
M33 - Triangulum Galaxy
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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Jim Tallman
M33 - Triangulum Galaxy
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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

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I took this picture at the East Coast Star Party earlier this month(10/8). I really like how the blue came out in it. This was taken with a 5” Takahashi Refractor, G-11 mount, unmodified Canon T3i. The final picture is a stack of 18 lights at 800 ISO for 600sec (10 minutes each) exposures, 18 Bias, 39 Darks, 30 Flats. Processing was done using PixInsight.

This is Messier 33 (M33) or the Triangulum Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and about 44 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.

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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy, Jim Tallman