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19-SEP-2017

Messier 33 (M33): Triangulum Galaxy

Imaged from Beckwith Township, Ontario, Canada.

The Triangulum Galaxy, also known as M33, is located roughly three million light years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum.

M33 is the second-nearest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way (M31; The Andromeda Galaxy being the closest).

Nikon D7200 (unmodified); Sky-Watcher ED80 Pro Refractor and a Tele Vue 0.8x Reducer/Flattener @ 480mm / f/6; Nikon 1.4x Teleconverter making for 672mm, f/8; ISO 800; IDAS LPS-P2 Filter; Celestron AVX mount; guided with SSAG; and PHD2; 20 x 6 minute subs (total integration is 120 minutes).

Shot in RAW; converted to 16 bit TIFFs; stacked using DSS; processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC.


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