M33 and Triangulum Region

This was a “filler” project; I was setting up to image further east, an object that was still below the horizon, but had time to kill and realized that M33 and the core of the rather small Triangulum constellation would fill the frame of my Canon T6i with the 85mm Rokinon lens. So, why not?

I spent a couple of hours on the target, which also let me work the kinks out of my setup so that when M45 finally was high enough to image, everything was running smoothly.

I’ve done a fair amount of noise reduction and suppressed the background enough that some of the point-like features are gone. Overall, that’s good, but it was fun to look at an overlay of what is in the field and realize that a lowly DSLR and 85mm lens are sufficient for detection of some pretty faint galaxies. Or course, I could be fooling myself and it could be that some of those faint “galaxies” that were marked just happen to have stars at those locations, too, and that’s what I was actually imaging.In some cases, it’s a definitely not, as when the “star” is elongated and slightly fuzzy while those next to it are not.