M82, The Cigar Galaxy is a very bright galaxy in Ursa Mayor.
It is a very easy target even from a light polluted sky.
Its central part shows a very strong Hα emission makeing it the perfect target for narrow band filter photograpy.
This is an Hα enhanced picture of this beautyful object taken from Castenedolo, a town near Brescia in northern Italy
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Messier 82 (M82), The cigar galaxy |
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| Date and location | Castenedolo April 20, 22, 23 2014 |
| Sensor | SBIG ST2000XV |
| Telescope | Celestron C 9.25 |
| Mount | 10Micron GM1000 HPS |
| Exposure |
Baader Planetarium Ha 7nm: 53x600" Binning 2 Astrodon R filter: 19x300" Binning 2 With Celestron F6.3 Focal Reducer Astrodon G filter: 24x300" Binning 2 With Celestron F6.3 Focal Reducer Astrodon B filter: 19x300" Binning 2 With Celestron F6.3 Focal Reducer Total Exposure 14 hours |
| Author | Edoardo Luca Radice |
| Note |
Wihout autoguide thanks to the HPS system Processing PixInsight 1.8 |