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M33 Triangulum Galaxy, Michael Armentrout
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M33 Triangulum Galaxy

M33 Triangulum Galaxy, Michael Armentrout
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M33 Triangulum Galaxy

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M33 Triangulum Galaxy
I have seen a lot of these lately (This galaxy is in season lol) This is the best galaxy i have so far!! To think that someone could be imaging our Galaxy while i image theirs lol. 
What do you think any suggestions to improve?

Spiral galaxy M33 is located in the triangle-shaped constellation Triangulum, earning it the nickname the Triangulum galaxy. About half the size of our Milky Way galaxy, M33 is the third-largest member of our Local Group of galaxies following the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the Milky Way. Comprised of 54 separate Hubble fields of view, this image is the largest high-resolution mosaic of M33 assembled to date by any observatory. It resolves 25 million individual stars in a 14,000-light-year-wide region spanning the center of the galaxy.

Blue-colored regions scattered throughout the image reveal numerous sites of rapid star birth in M33. In fact, Hubble’s observations reveal that the Triangulum galaxy’s star formation rate is ten times higher than the average found in the Andromeda galaxy, previously surveyed by Hubble in similar detail. A bright blue patch in the lower left of this image, called NGC 604, is the largest star-forming region in M33 and one of the largest stellar nurseries in the entire Local Group.

The Triangulum galaxy’s orderly spiral structure displays few signs of interactions with nearby galaxies. However, that could change in the future. Only slightly farther away from us than the Andromeda galaxy, about 3 million light-years from Earth, M33 is a suspected gravitational companion to Andromeda, and both galaxies are moving toward our own. M33 could become a third party involved in the impending collision between the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies more than 4 billion years from now.

Technical Stuff:
Bortle 4
Moon: 20%-60%
Total Average RMS: .4-1
33 Hours Integration 
100x300R
100x300G
100x300B
100x300HA
60x300 Dark
Cooled:-10C
Gain:111

Scope: William Optics GT 71
Guide Scope: William Optics: 32mm Mini 
Main Camera: ZWO ASI 183mm Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 120mm MINI
Mount: GEM 45
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Filter Wheel: ZWO EFW
Filters: ZWO LRGB HA SII OII
Computer: ZWO ASI AIR PRO

Calibrated and processed: PIXINSIGHT

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