Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Triangulum (Tri)  ·  Contains:  M 33  ·  NGC 595  ·  NGC 598  ·  NGC 604  ·  Triangulum Galaxy  ·  Triangulum Pinwheel
Messier 33 a.k.a. Triangulum Galaxy, lucian_nicu
Messier 33 a.k.a. Triangulum Galaxy
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Messier 33 a.k.a. Triangulum Galaxy

Messier 33 a.k.a. Triangulum Galaxy, lucian_nicu
Messier 33 a.k.a. Triangulum Galaxy
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Messier 33 a.k.a. Triangulum Galaxy

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Messier 33 a.k.a. Triangulum Galaxy
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As part of the local group of galaxies, along with the Milky Way, Andromeda and several other smaller galaxies, M33 is about 2.7 million light-years away from Earth and can be seen in the constellation Triangulum, a constellation that gave the galaxy its name.
Compared to our galaxy, Triangulum Galaxy is almost 2 times smaller than the Milky Way, with a diameter of about 60,000 light-years, and hosts "only" 40 billion stars, compared to almost 400 billion stars of the Milky Way.
Triangulum Galaxy, according to those passionate about astronomical observations, can be seen with the naked eye (I really couldn’t see it, not even from a Bortle 2 location), but using a small / medium telescope, this galaxy can be seen very well during the last months of the year.
This is my first decent LRGB image and I can only hope that I can improve my results in the future.

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