{"id":2896,"date":"2024-01-08T18:09:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2024-01-08T18:09:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:09:50","slug":"ic-342-in-camelopardalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/?p=2896","title":{"rendered":"IC 342 in Camelopardalis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" id=\"block-df484ab6-dc7a-4401-8c54-2ef93e4e6436\"><a href=\"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1644\" src=\"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ic342-2560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2899\" srcset=\"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ic342-2560.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ic342-2560-2048x1315.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ic342-2560-768x493.jpg 768w, http:\/\/trafyx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ic342-2560-1536x986.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The IC 342 spiral galaxy. Click for full size (4452 \u00d7 2859 px) image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-cd1ff6c3-4642-4291-b653-78679ccccfbc\">At a distance of just 11.2 Mly, IC 342 represents one of the closest massive spirals beyond the Local Group, exhibiting the abundance of star-forming activity at low inclination \u2013 almost face on (<em>i ~ 30\u00b0)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This H-\u03b1 LRGB image was obtained with the A1 telescope installed at the Alnitak Remote Observatory in Nerpio, Spain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-53773a77-cbdb-48dd-aaa6-5e96b6ac08a8\"><li>0.43 m PlaneWave CDK17 f\/6.8 Corrected Dall-Kirkham Telescope<\/li><li>Software Bisque Paramount ME German Equatorial Mount<\/li><li>Moravian Instruments C3-61000 Pro, Back-Illuminated CMOS Camera<\/li><li>Chroma 50 mm filters (5 nm narrowband H-\u03b1, LRGB)<\/li><li>FLI CenterLine CL-1-14 12+2-position Dual Color Filter Wheel<\/li><li>Optec Sagitta Off-Axis Guider with ASI174MM Guide Camera<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-cfe25769-e8bb-476b-b404-4f365b4a3b76\">Acquisition software: DC-3 ACP, MaximDL Pro, TheSky X<br>Processing software: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, RC Astro BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, StarXTerminator, GraXpert, GIMP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a distance of just 11.2 Mly, IC 342 represents one of the closest massive spirals beyond the Local Group, exhibiting the abundance of star-forming activity at low inclination \u2013 almost face on (i ~ 30\u00b0). This H-\u03b1 LRGB image was obtained with the A1 telescope installed at the Alnitak Remote Observatory in Nerpio, Spain: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trafyx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}