M33 - Triangulum galaxy

[Scosmico]

Does anyone have a M33 star chart black and white to share. PDF will do.

Around 3 am this morning I had my WOW moment with M33.  It is a huge DSO, and with my 12"DOB I got a bit disorientated. I saw so many faint fuzzy things in it.

It was easy to find it with my Binoculars 8x42mm. A faint smudge.

With my DOB from 64x to 130x detail and more detail. I would like to study it again with some support.

What an amazing object.

Many Thanks

[Mike73]

You can click on the image on this page and print it out, pretty much covers all the good stuff within M33.

http://astronomy-mall.com/Adventures.In.Deep.Space/M33.HII-Star.Clouds.html

[Scosmico]

That is great Mike. Thanks. Not just a good map, but a good read too.

I definitely felt like space walking when looking at M33.

[Mike73]

Its pretty easy to figure out the orientation and placement of the NGC's within it, from memory there is a 3 or 4 stars just off centre on one side. The brightest NGC 604 is on the opposite side to those stars. I also find magnifications around x120 and a UHC really helps make the HII regions pop.

[Scosmico]

I will try the UHC for sure. I was already thinking if it would help the task of identified those objects. My 9mm (170x) and 12,5mm(122x) orthos are quite good on galaxies. I hope to share my observations later.