Date: 11/10/2010
Target: M33 - Triangulum Galaxy
Telescope: Orion 8"
Camera: Canon 40D (modified)
Filter: IDAS
Exposures: 82x120s (2.7h) @ ISO1600
Framing: North is Right
Location: Mocksville, NC
Seeing: 4/5
Transparency: 4/5
Start Time: 9:00PM
End Time: 1:00AM
Captured with Nebulosity, stacked using DeepSkyStacker, processed in Photoshop.
This is a 3x Dither and crop from the larger
M33 image.
From
wikipedia:
NGC 604 is a
H II region inside the
Triangulum Galaxy. It was discovered by
William Herschel on September 11, 1784. It is one of the largest H II regions in the
Local Group of galaxies; at the galaxy's estimated distance of 2.7 million
light-years its longest diameter is roughly 1500 light-years (460
parsecs), over 40 times the size of the visible portion of the
Orion Nebula. It is over 6300 times more
luminous than the Orion Nebula, and if it were at the same distance it would outshine
Venus. Like all
emission nebulae, its gas is
ionized by a cluster of massive
stars at its center.