01/01/2025
I’m still in awe at the quality of smart telescopes! This was a shortened version 10 min exposure of the Triangulum Galaxy taken at with a Seestar S50 provided by the quality of this thing for something that costs around the £500 mark is not only incredible, it’s insanely easy. It almost feels like cheating 😂 pop it down, press go, and it does the rest! To think 5 years ago the set up you’d need to get something of this quality, it would have been well over £2000.
Anyway, enjoy this wonder of the universe. And, you can too from your back garden with a Seestar S50 👌
Triangulum is home to more than 40 billion stars a the light having travelled to us for a little longer than Andromeda at around 2.7 million light years away. Possibly, first discovered by Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654 who talked about it as being a cloud like nebulosity near the triangle constellation, later to be found to be beyond the Milky Way in the 1920s by Edwin Hubble defining it as being another island universe (as suggested by Thomas Wright in the 1700s) beyond our own.
