{"id":2334,"date":"2025-02-25T22:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2025-02-25T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T05:04:01","slug":"messier-106-galaxy-24-million-light-years-from-my-scope-plus-about-40-further-tiny-to-us-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/?p=2334","title":{"rendered":"Messier 106 galaxy, 24 million light years from my scope, plus about 40 further tiny (to us) galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/M106SIG-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/M106SIG-1024x714.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"586\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/M106SIG-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/M106SIG-400x279.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/M106SIG-450x314.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/M106SIG-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/M106SIG-1536x1071.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/M106SIG-2048x1428.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/M106SIG-1200x837.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n14 hours 20 min total exposure.<br \/>\nNo star reduction.<\/p>\n<p>Look at all those further galaxies in there! There&#8217;s even one you can see behind (or in front of) M106, near top right.<\/p>\n<p>Gear: Quattro 250P 10&#8243;. ZWO ASI2600MC. Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro. ASIAIR Pro.<\/p>\n<p>Full tech specs: <a class=\"relative pointer-events-auto a cursor-pointer underline \" href=\"https:\/\/www.astrobin.com\/piq1p5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/www.astrobin.com\/piq1p5\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 hours 20 min total exposure. No star reduction. Look at all those further galaxies in there! There&#8217;s even one you can see behind (or in front of) M106, near top right. Gear: Quattro 250P 10&#8243;. ZWO ASI2600MC. Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro. ASIAIR Pro. Full tech specs: https:\/\/www.astrobin.com\/piq1p5\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mdad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}