Triangulum Galaxy M33

[Sterrenland]

Last night's offering was the Triangulum Galaxy. Managed a total of 1.5 hours of 2 minute exposures...it was rather chilly though! Despite the -5 degrees wind chill it was good to get outside...seems like way too long since the last session.

 

This beauty is about 2.7 million light years away and measures about 60,000 light years across. Someone, somewhere, has worked out the galaxy contains about 40 billion stars, though I haven't counted them myself.

 

[astro mick]

Simply lovely.

Nuf said.🙂

[Clarkey]

Nice image for 2 hours given the relatively low surface brightness. Triangulum might benefit from a bit of Ha with the l-enhance if you want to add any more data.

[MartinB]

The galaxy looks terrific!  On my calibrated monitor the background is a little bright.  I think that just adjusting the black point a little will help the galaxy to stand out a little more and enhance contrast.