Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Triangulum (Tri)  ·  Contains:  IC 131  ·  IC 132  ·  IC 133  ·  IC 135  ·  IC 136  ·  IC 137  ·  IC 142  ·  IC 143  ·  M 33  ·  NGC 588  ·  NGC 592  ·  NGC 595  ·  NGC 598  ·  NGC 604  ·  Triangulum Galaxy  ·  Triangulum Pinwheel
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Triangulum Galaxy in LHaRGB, jewzaam
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Triangulum Galaxy in LHaRGB

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Triangulum Galaxy in LHaRGB

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This project started as me looking for something to enter in the Q4 Raleigh Astronomy Club Imaging Challenge. This quarter's challenge is to take one exposure picture of anything. I decided to try Triangulum Galaxy.

I was thinking it was a bit dim but it really isn't too bad.  I took a series of exposures from 15s to 900s to see what I could get. I ended up messing up my sequence and taking 4x more data than expected. So I did a bit more of a comparison for the challenge on how different exposures compare when processed. And since I had the data, I added that luminance to a short set of color data I managed to get before the clouds rolled in. It was much less data than I had intended but the result is quite nice!  I added more data, including H-alpha.

Triangulum Galaxy is a face-on spiral galaxy 2.73 million light years from Earth and appears in the Triangulum constellation. It is in our local group of galaxies and is the 3rd largest of the group, behind only Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy. If you're in really good viewing conditions and have no light pollution it is possible to see Triangulum Galaxy with your naked eye! This makes it the object farthest from Earth that can be viewed without magnification.

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Triangulum Galaxy in LHaRGB, jewzaam