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Photographer:

Marco Cipriani

Location of Photo:

Campocatino, Frosinone, Italy

Date/Time of photo:

15th July 2018

Equipment:

Sky-Watcher 200mm f/5 Newtonian telescope, EQ5 mount with handmade GoTo, Nikon D3300 (not cooled or astro-modified), no filters or correctors, autoguiding with PHD2 and a QHY5L-II, mount and camera control via INDI (Linux), autofocus with homemade focuser

Description:

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. With a diameter of about 60,000 light-years, M 33 is the third largest member of the Local Group of galaxies (~40% the size of the Milky Way). Processing in Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, 76x60 seconds @ISO 3200, flats, bias frames, darks and darkflats.

Website:

http://marcocipriani01.github.io

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