Messier 33, The Triangulum Galaxy

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Hi,

Here's my image of the Triangulum Galaxy.

The Triangulum Galaxy is a Spiral Galaxy located roughly 2.73 Million Light Years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It's just the third largest member in the local group, behind our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and also Andromeda (the latter of which you can see my image of on another thread on this forum).

The Triangulum Galaxy is believed to be a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy owing to their proximity, velocity and interactions.

Even though it's an astonishing 3 or so million light years away from Earth, it can be seen with the naked under eye under very good (dark and no light pollution) skies.

My image is the result of stacking 125 photographs together, some three minutes long and most five minutes in length.

I then stacked them together in a program called DeepSkyStacker and processed the resulting stacked image in Adobe Photoshop CS6.

Acquired with the following equipment:

Imaging Camera: Canon 80D (stock, unmodified)
Telescope: William Optics Zenithstar 73
Mount: HEQ5 Pro Rowan Belt Modified
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini Autoguiding Camera
Guidescope: Altair Starwave 50mm
Image Acquisition Software: Astrophotography Tool
Guiding Software: PHD2 Guiding Software
Bortle 5 Skies
No Light Pollution Filter
125 Light Frames
100 Bias Frames
No Dark Frames (Dithered)
20 Flat Frames per (three) sessions

Thanks for looking.

The Triangulum Galaxy, Messier 33 by Joel Spencer, on Flickr

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Great photo well done. Seeing what you used and how to I would be completely lost even trying to attempt it. A real specialist medium . The problem is as you said is light pollution and finding somewhere well away from it. My best attempt is the moon but won't ruin your thread by posting a photo. A little respect for your work
 
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Great photo well done. Seeing what you used and how to I would be completely lost even trying to attempt it. A real specialist medium . The problem is as you said is light pollution and finding somewhere well away from it.

Thanks very much Bazza. Yes Light Pollution is the bane of astronomers and astrophotographers. I was absolutely stunned by the amount of stars I could see in the Sky when I went to a Bortle 2/3 location a year or so ago.
 
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