Triangulum Galaxy M33 Backyard Astrophotography

The Triangulum Galaxy, or Messier 33, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Triangulum, and is visible to the naked eye under dark sky conditions. Unfortunately, deep sky objects like this are not visible to the unaided eye here in the Coachella Valley due to city light pollution. I was able to capture this on 9-30-16 during the new moon phase, and am very happy with how it turned out.

3 hours total exposure time

37x150s lights
12x180s lights
13x240s lights
68 darks
40 bias
38 flats

Equipment:
Celestron Nexstar 6se + wedge
6.3 focal reducer
canon 450d
asi120mc-s guiding

UPDATE!

Reprocessed this data with an additional 4 hours of exposure time for a grand total of 7 hours

Sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy

I ran across this image the other day, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This is simply the most beautiful picture of the Andromeda Galaxy, or any Galaxy for that matter, that I have ever seen. The full size original is a whopping 4.3 GB, but is completely worth every bit of bandwidth. This image shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters, and I just can't stop looking at it! #Mindblown

You can download various sizes from the Spacetelescope.org website

Credit:

NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, USA), B. F. Williams (University of Washington, USA), L. C. Johnson (University of Washington, USA), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler.