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Messier 33, The Triangulum Galaxy
Image:
7x4.5 minutes for a total of 31.5 minutes exposure at ISO 1600, dark subtracted
Stacked in Deepsky Stacker, processed in Adobe PS CS3 extended
Taken on September 5, 2010 at Taylorsville Lake, Ky
Equipment:
Konus 200 mm f5 Newtonian (1,000 mm focal length)
Losmandy G-11 Gemini Go To mount with Losmandy Heavy Duty tripod
80 mm Orion Shorty Autoguide scope with starshooter autoguider
Hutech modified Canon T1i DSLR
From, Wikipedia:
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy at approximately 3 million light years (ly) distance in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a moniker it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way Galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy and about 30 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye (though, believe me, it is very hard to see). It has a low surface brightness, although it covers a relatively large field of view.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
