Messier 33 spiral galaxy in Triangulum (Remote, NM) [Explored]

One of about 50 galaxies in our neighbouring "Local Group", Messier 33 lies about 2.7 million LY away. A trail of gas connects it to the much larger Andromeda galaxy and it is likely that it has gravitationally interacted with Andromeda in the past - this may explain why M33 has a very small core region.

Several areas in the galaxy are bright enough to warrant their own NGC classification numbers:

 

NGC 604 is the very prominent HII region at the NW

NGC 595 is a smaller bright HII region just to the right and above the core.

NGC 592 lies due East of the core and is a small diffuse HII area

NGC 588 lies along the same line as NGC 592 - just further East. Another diffuse HII zone.

 

This image represents 294 minutes exposure (49 x 6 mins) with a one shot colour CCD.Dithered, drizzled and stacked.

The field of view is about 50 arcminutes across.

 

Takahashi 150mm refractor (T3) at iTelescope's New Mexico Observatory.

 

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