The Triangulum Galaxy or Messier 33 + Stars Over Bucks + L-QEF (L-Quad Enhance Filter)

The Triangulum Galaxy or Messier 33

Credit: Stars Over Bucks

Filters: L-QEF (L-Quad Enhance Filter)

 

 

 

 

The Triangulum Galaxy or Messier 33. This is the smallest spiral galaxy amongst our Local Group which includes Andromeda and our own Milky Way.  It is 60,000 light years across and contains 40 billion stars. Our own galaxy is almost twice as big and contains 10 times as many stars! This galaxy is 2.7 million light years away and I could see it with my naked eye when I was in the Adirondacks under very dark skies. If you look near the top of the image you can see the bright nebuka in the galaxy’s arm (NGC604). It’s a huge nebula measuring 1500 light years across, about 40 times the size of the Orion Nebula! I shot this in one night from my backyard using my largest telescope last year and reprocessed it. 

 

 

 

Telescope: Celestron 11 Edge f/7
Zwo ASI2600MC Pro
Exposure: 110 x 4min
Mount: iOptron cem70 
Guiding: ASI174mini, OAG
Filter: Optolong L-Quad Ehance Filter
Software: APT, DSS, Pixinsight 
Sky: Bortle 6

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