{"id":2198,"date":"2024-03-05T03:14:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T10:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2024-03-05T05:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T12:06:16","slug":"my-first-light-photos-of-pinwheel-galaxy-with-new-quattro-250p-imaging-newtonian-10-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"Pinwheel Galaxy: My first-light pix w\/ new Quattro 250P Imaging Newtonian 10&#8243; telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My shot of Pinwheel Galaxy, (Messier 101) from the other night<br \/>\n21 million light-years from Earth. 2 hour and 8 min of shooting. \u00a01000 mm at f\/4.<\/p>\n<p>Also, un-cropped image with overlay of what&#8217;s what (PGC ones are more-distant galaxies.) and a photo of the scope on my mount. It barely fits in the AstroHut, lol. (click images to see larger)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/M101-Done-Sig-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2199\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/M101-Done-Sig-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/M101-Done-Sig-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/M101-Done-Sig-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/M101-Done-Sig-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/M101-Done-Sig-1536x986.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/M101-Done-Sig-2048x1315.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/M101-Done-Sig-1200x771.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NoCropAnnotatedJPG-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2201\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NoCropAnnotatedJPG-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NoCropAnnotatedJPG-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NoCropAnnotatedJPG-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NoCropAnnotatedJPG-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NoCropAnnotatedJPG-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NoCropAnnotatedJPG-2048x1369.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/NoCropAnnotatedJPG-1200x802.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FindingChart101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2202\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FindingChart101-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FindingChart101-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FindingChart101-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FindingChart101-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FindingChart101.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240222_123228-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2203\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240222_123228-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240222_123228-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240222_123228-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240222_123228-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240222_123228-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240222_123228-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240222_123228-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240222_123228-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My shot of Pinwheel Galaxy, (Messier 101) from the other night 21 million light-years from Earth. 2 hour and 8 min of shooting. \u00a01000 mm at f\/4. Also, un-cropped image with overlay of what&#8217;s what (PGC ones are more-distant galaxies.) and a photo of the scope on my mount. It barely fits in the AstroHut, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/?p=2198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pinwheel Galaxy: My first-light pix w\/ new Quattro 250P Imaging Newtonian 10&#8243; telescope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mdad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}