The Triangulum Galaxy (also known as Messier 33) is so called because you must look in the constellation of the same name to see it. However, at 2.7 million light years distant, it is much further away from us than the individual stars that make up the constellation itself, and lie within our own Milky Way. After Andromeda and the Milky Way, it is the third largest galaxy in our Local Group and is barely visible with the naked-eye under ideal conditions.

Luke used a WO Z103 apochromatic refracting telescope mounted on a Celestron CGX-L mount to track this galaxy across the sky. A field flattener was used to minimize aberrations and a light pollution filter was used to reduce stray light from artificial sources.The ZWO ASI294MC-P camera was cooled to a temperature of -10°C to reduce thermal noise in the sensor, so reducing the random noise in the images.

Twenty 2-minute frames were taken using the Ekos imaging suite while a small guide telescope and camera were used to monitor, and correct, the mount movement every three seconds. The mount control and image recording were accomplished using the Ekos software and processing was done using SiriL.