Thursday, November 19, 2020

M33 Triangulum Galaxy with COAST

The Triangulum Galaxy M33 is the most distant object which can be seen with the naked eye (during a perfect dark sky conditions); the galaxy is located in constellation Triangulum and about 2.73 million ly away from Earth. Together with Andromeda galaxy (2.54 million ly) and our MilkyWay, the Triangulum galaxy is the third biggest galaxy of the Local Group.


The picture was taken with COAST telescope (a C14 f/ 10 with Fli Proline KAF0900 camera) on Tenerife. The picture is a combination of H-Alpha, OIII, SII and mono (180s). Stacking was done using APP and final editing with CS4 and DeNoise AI.