Triangulum Galaxy
The third largest galaxy of our Local Group, a faint face-on spiral that needs a dark sky and binoculars.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Galaxy
- Distance
- 2.73 million light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 5.7, a sight for binoculars
- Size in the sky
- About 2 times the width of the full Moon
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Catalogue
- M 33, NGC 598
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Near it in the sky
- Andromeda GalaxyA galaxy in Andromeda, about a fist away.
- AlgolA blue-white main-sequence star in Perseus, about a hand span away.
- Double ClusterAn open cluster in Perseus, about a hand span away.
- MirfakA yellow-white supergiant in Perseus, about a hand span away.
- PleiadesAn open cluster in Taurus, about two hand spans away.