{"id":2081,"date":"2020-10-18T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2020-10-18T19:18:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T23:18:51","slug":"triangulum-galaxy-at-50mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/triangulum-galaxy-at-50mm\/","title":{"rendered":"Triangulum Galaxy at 50mm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>M33, the Triangulum Galaxy, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, and its neighborhood at 50mm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" data-attachment-id=\"2082\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/triangulum-galaxy-at-50mm\/m33-study-scaled-down\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?fit=2048%2C1340&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"M33-study-scaled-down\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?fit=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?fit=640%2C419&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?resize=640%2C419&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2082\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=2082\" class=\"wp-image-2082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?resize=1024%2C670&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?resize=768%2C503&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?resize=1536%2C1005&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/matthannan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/M33-study-scaled-down.png?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If the sky stays clear, I am going to try again tonight at 100mm. I knew nothing about this galaxy yesterday. Now I know that it is the second brightest object that we can see with our naked eyes (under extremely awesome dark sky conditions) that is outside of our own galaxy. It is 2.73 million light years away. It is the smallest member in the Local Group, which is made up of Andromeda, our Milky Way, and, of course, Triangulum. After Andromeda and the Milky Way crash into each other, in about 6 billion years, Triangulum will be pulled in by the increased gravity of the new Milkromeda (sp?) galaxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This image is 306 exposures at 6 seconds each, so just a bit over 30 minutes total.<br>50mm, f\/2.8, ISO 640<br><a href=\"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/sky\/20201017\/M33-study.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link<\/a> to full-sized, 96MB file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M33, the Triangulum Galaxy, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, and its neighborhood at 50mm. If the sky stays clear, I am going to try again tonight at 100mm. I knew nothing about this galaxy yesterday. Now I know that it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/triangulum-galaxy-at-50mm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[376,13],"tags":[536,541,542],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography","tag-50mm","tag-m33","tag-triangulum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NxlE-xz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2077,"url":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/andromeda-at-50mm-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":2081,"position":0},"title":"Andromeda at 50mm, again","author":"matthannan","date":"18 October 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Went out on the 14th and took a quick 470 pictures of a blank spot in the sky. 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