Object: The Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
Date: 10/7/07
Location: White Sands Star Party, NM
Telescope: TeleVue 85 @ f/5.6 on a G11 mount
Guiding: Meade DSI-C camera and PHD software
Camera: Modified Canon 350XT
Exposure: 15 x 4min, ISO 800, Temp 65 degrees F
Processing: RAW conversion. registration and stacking (min/max excluded) in ImagesPlus. Final levels and curves in PS.
Comments: This beautiful galaxy swirls at a distance of some 3 million light years and is gravitationally bound to our local group of galaxies.  It contains one of the largest H-II regions in the known universe (NGC 604) visible at the 4 o'clock position in one of the main spiral arms.  Thanks Nils... 

© Dave Dockery 2007