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M33
By Ed Lee

M33.jpg

Taken from Southend on sea Essex

Date August 9th 2022.

Ed used a Sky-Watcher Newtonian 200/1000 mm F5 , 1246x30 second exposures with a Fujifilm X-T2 (CMOS) camera on a Losmandy G11 mount

Processed with Siril 1.0.2, Onstep 4.24, StarTools 1.8.

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy 2.73 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier 33 or NGC (New General Catalogue), the Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way. It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be viewed with the naked eye.

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