Above: Reprocess of the same data in Dec. '22. (A slight improvement - not huge!)
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The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC 598, and is sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, a nickname it shares with Messier 101. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and about 44 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.

The galaxy is the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group and it is believed to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy due to their interactions, velocities and proximity to one another in the night sky.

Triangulum may be home to 40 billion stars, compared to 400 billion for the Milky Way, and 1 trillion stars for Andromeda Galaxy.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ130ED
Imaging cameras: QSI 6120i
Mounts: Takahashi EM 400 Temma 2
Guiding cameras: QHY CCD QHY 5 II
Software: PHD 2,  Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight ,  Sequence Generator Pro SGP
Filters: Astrodon L,R,G,B & Ha (5nm)
Accessories: ATIK EFW2

Resolution: 2874 x 2059
Dates: Nov. 18 - Nov. 21, 2020
Frames:
Astrodon Ha 5nm: 12x300" 
Astrodon  Lum: 60x120"
Astrodon RGB: 3x40x120" 
Integration: 7 hours

​Center (RA, Dec):            (23.477, 30.669)
Center (RA, hms):           01h 33m 54.416s
Center (Dec, dms):         +30° 40' 07.427"
Size:      47.2 x 33.8 arcmin
Radius: 0.484 deg
Pixel scale:         0.985 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:       Up is 278 degrees E of N

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