{"id":865,"date":"2019-10-11T21:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theo192.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de\/?p=865"},"modified":"2021-09-24T09:14:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:14:03","slug":"andromeda-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turm.physik.tu-darmstadt.de\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/andromeda-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Andromeda Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Andromeda Galaxy, M31, a truly magnificent sight. It is the sister of our own galaxy and the closest major galaxy with a distance of only 2.5 million light years. Our Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Triangulum Galaxy, M33, are members of the Local Group, which also hosts a number of smaller galaxies all in gravitational interaction with each other. M31 contains about 1 trillion stars, twice as many as our home galaxy. It is accompanied by the satellite galaxies M32 (below the center of M31) and M110 (upper-right quadrant).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not only one of the brightest Messier objects it is also quite large\u2026 six times the full moon in diameter. Under good conditions you can easily spot a smudge of light from this grand galaxy with the naked eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ar large object requires a large image: It is a six-panel mosaic with a whooping 50 mega-pixels of final data \u2013 if you click on the image to get a full-screen view, you will see a down-sampled version with 25% of the pixels. The individual panels only use a little over 2 hours of LRGB exposures with 120sec each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telescope<\/td>CFF Triplet APO 160mm, Riccardi Reducer, f=810mm<\/td><\/tr>
Camera<\/td>ASI1600MM Pro, 8-Slot Filter Wheel with Baader Filters<\/td><\/tr>
Exposures<\/td>2×3 Mosaic, LRGB, 6 x 4 x 18 x 120sec, ~14 hours total<\/td><\/tr>
Data taken<\/td>26 – 30 September 2019<\/td><\/tr>
Site<\/td>TURMX @ E-EyE Observatory, Extremadura<\/td><\/tr>
Processing<\/td>Robert Roth, 11 October 2019<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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