M-33 (NGC-598) Commonly called The Triangulum Galaxy. It is the third largest galaxy in the Local Group, after M-31 and our Milky Way. It lies at a distance of 2.7 million light years from Earth. It is a type SA galaxy and is over 61,000 light years in diameter. It is very active in new star formation, which accounts for its bluish color. It has a number of large H-2 emission nebulae, the largest of which, NGC-604, is clearly visible at the tip of the spiral arm in the lower left of the image.

NOTE: THIS IS THE LAST IMAGE TAKEN AT THE ORIGINAL LAND OF OZ OBSERVATORY IN LINN COUNTY, KANSAS, BEFORE IT WAS CLOSED IN JANUARY OF 2025.

It is a 46 minute integration of 2 minute exposures through the Celestron C-11 telescope, using the Starizona f/6.3 reducer/corrector and the ZWO 2600MC Pro camera, cooled to 0 degrees and binned 1 X 1. Captured and guided using NINA, combined and processed in PixInsight. Post-processed in PhotoShop.