- Telescope: William Optics FLT 110 with F/T 3025 fouser & Starizona usb motor focus
- Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Skyscan pro
- Chip: Qhy2 pro with FF/FR W.O type 3
- Guiding: TS finder 8x50 with Meade DSI I pro
- Filter wheel: Starlight Xpress usb 7x1.25
- Location: Agios Panteleimonas,GR (20.10.2012)
- Luminance: 14x300sec (bin1x)
- Total: 70minutes
- Programs I have used-
- Maxim DL, Photoshop CS5, The Sky6, FocusMax
Information about M 33
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light years (ly) 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 30 other smaller galaxies. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.
The Triangulum Galaxy is sometimes informally referred to as the "Pinwheel Galaxy" by some amateur astronomy references[7] and in some public outreach websites.[8] However, the SIMBAD Astronomical Database, a professional astronomy database that contains formal designations for astronomical objects, indicates that the name Pinwheel Galaxy is used to refer to Messier 101,[9] and several other amateur astronomy resources and other public outreach websites also identify Messier 101 by that name.
Under exceptionally good viewing conditions with no light pollution, the Triangulum Galaxy can be seen with the naked eye.[12] It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed without the aid of a telescope.[13][14] Being a diffuse object, its visibility is strongly affected by small amounts of light pollution. It ranges from easily visible by direct vision in dark skies to a difficult averted vision object in rural or suburban skies.[12] For this reason, Triangulum is one of the critical sky marks of the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale.