M 33 (NGC 598) Galaxy in Triangulum

Located at: RA 01 hours 33 minutes 51 seconds, Dec +30 degrees 39 minutes 37 seconds

Size: 65' x 38'; Magnitude: 6.3 blue; Class: SA(s)cd

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

  ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Red filter, 650 minutes (65 x 10 minute subs), 01/16/17/18/2009; seeing 2.5-3.7 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 1.4.1, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Notes:

This image replaces an unfiltered 91.5 minute Track & Accumulate image from 12/24/2005