This is one of the grand galaxies of the Local Group, a sister galaxy of our own Milky Way Galaxy. This is the Triangulum Galaxy, or Messier 33, in the constellation Triangulum. It is 2.7 million light years from Earth, has a diameter of 60,000 light years, and hosts about 40 billion stars. This about 1/10th of the number of stars in our Milky Way.
Again, this is one of our first-light images with a total of 8 hours of exposure time in luminance (L), red (R), green (G), and blue (B) filters. This is definitely a target to revisit with some more data…
| Telescope | CFF Triplet APO 160mm, Riccardi Reducer, f=810mm |
| Camera | ASI1600MM Pro, 8-Slot Filter Wheel with Baader Filters |
| Exposures | LRGB, 3 x 60 x 120sec, 8 hours total |
| Data taken | 31 August – 1 September 2019 |
| Site | TURMX @ E-EyE Observatory, Extremadura |
| Processing | Robert Roth, 1 September 2019 |