Messier 33 - RGB colour

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Triangulum Galaxy = M33 = NGC598 - a prominent member of our Local Group. M33 (Triangulum) is a spiral Galaxy of type Sc - this means with a little central arm and quite open outer arms.

M33 is smaller than our Milky Way - it consists of around 30 000 000 000 stars. The distance to M33 is 2.7 Mio Lightyears .

Photo,guiding and median Image processing : 10 R, 10 G, 10 B of each 5 minutes - by our favorite piano player - Jørn Christensen - et al. - the Astronomy Class.

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Technical Data : 5" Meade APO f9 refractor mounted PB on our user retrained 16" SCT.
AP6 CCD camera - image processing with Cyanogen MaxIm DL .

Sky conditions - slight fog conditions - no Moon light.

Pelican Nebula.

Hydrogen Emission Nebula IC 5070.

A difficult object on this observation list

Blue : 10 x 200 Seconds - Yellow 6 x 200 Seconds - Red 18 x 200 Seconds - by the Astronomy Class on their own.