M33, The Triangulum Galaxy

From Wikipedia: The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.8 Mly from earth, appearing the constellation Triangulum. In very dark skies this galaxy can be visible with the naked eye. It is also one of the earlier discovered galaxies, discovered in 1654 by Giovanni Battista Hodierna, although it would be several hundred years before it was recognized as a galaxy.

Processing

Processing was with PixInsight utilizing the RC Astro plugins. I followed the SetiAstro tutorial for adding Ha data to a galaxy.

Technical Card

Mount: Celestron AVX

Camera(s): ZWO ASI 2600mc pro, ZWO ASI 120 mini guide camera

OTA: Apertura 60mm FPL-53 doublet with flattener

Filters: None, Baader Ha Filter

Exposure: 241 Lights @ 180 seconds, 150 Ha @ 180 seconds

Annotated Image

I was surprised to see that there are a surprisingly large number of additional faint galaxies, although very few of them were identifiable as such before the annotation. Additionally, several of the larger nebulae and globular clusters in M33 have there own catalog entries.