Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Triangulum (Tri)  ·  Contains:  M 33  ·  NGC 598  ·  Triangulum galaxy
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M33 • Triangulum Galaxy in HaLRGB, Douglas J Struble
M33 • Triangulum Galaxy in HaLRGB
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M33 • Triangulum Galaxy in HaLRGB

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M33 • Triangulum Galaxy in HaLRGB, Douglas J Struble
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M33 • Triangulum Galaxy in HaLRGB

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Winter clouds came early this year. I wanted to have a lot of integration time in my red zone plus put some Ha as icing on the cake. There are some beautiful nebulas in M33 and wanted to bring that out.

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years (ly) 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 Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.

The galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and it is believed to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy due to their interactions, velocities and proximity to one another in the night sky. It also has an H-II nucleus.

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M33 • Triangulum Galaxy in HaLRGB, Douglas J Struble

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