- Object Information:
- Messier 33, NGC 598
- Distance - 3 million light years
- Messier 33 is a spiral galaxy and a member of the "Local Group" of nearby galaxies.
- For more information on this object see: http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m033.html
- Imaged at:
- Blair Valley, San Diego County, CA
- Equipment:
- Optics - Takahashi Epsilon 160 at f/3.3
- Mount - Astro-Physics 1200 GTO,
- Camera - Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) ST-2000XM CCD,
- Exposure Information:
- August 20, 2004
- LRGB image consisting of a luminance frame and RGB images of a combined total exposure time of R = 70 min, G = 40 min and B = 50 minutes. Eighteen separate luminance images were used for the luminance frame. Three sets of six, 5 minute summed exposures were median combined to create the luminance frame.
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