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M33 (Triangulum Galaxy)
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Image Details:
- Camera: Canon Digital Rebel (300D)
- Mount: Celestron AS-GT
- Scope: Celestron C8-N (8" f/5 Newtonian)
- Configuration: Prime Focus
- Additional Optics: Celestron/Baader Multi Purpose Coma Corrector (MPCC)
- Filter: None
- Effective Focal Length: 1000mm
- Effective Focal Ratio: f/5
- Exposure: 19 x 5min @ ISO 400
- Total Exposure: 1hrs, 35min
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- Date: 11/13/2004, ~10:30pm PST (start)
- Location: Saratoga, CA, USA
- Acquisition: DSLRfocus
- Focus: DSLRFocus
- Dithering: Manual
- Guiding: GuideDog via Philips ToUcam Pro II (840k) through Orion ST80 w/ Celestron 2x "Kit" Barlow
Processing:
- IRIS: Dark subtraction, flat field, registration, normalized Kappa-Sigma stacking, background fit, cropping
- Photoshop: Levels, image size, cropping, JPG conversion
Image Description:
This was the first decent night of weather we've had here in the Bay Area in a long time, so it was nice to get out again and capture this image. The seeing and transparency were good, not great, but far better than they've been in quite some time. M33 is a spiral galaxy, sometimes referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy, in the constellation of Triangulum -- a constellation which is shaped like ... drum roll please ... a triangle. <grin> This is a crop of the full-size frame. North is to the left.