The Triangulum Galaxy (M33) in the constellation of Triangulum, one of the galaxies that comprises the Local Group, a galactic cluster that includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.
I took this with a TMB92L refractor telescope, a Hutech-modified a Canon T3i DSLR, an Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, all riding on a Celestron AVX mount.
I spent several hours capturing long exposures of the galaxy from the Paint Mines, a relatively dark site around 45 minutes east of Colorado Springs. Unfortunately, this area has been receiving a lot more traffic since the pandemic, and it's no longer really suitable for the all-night imaging sessions required to produce images like these.
