M81 and M82 (Bode's and Cigar Galaxies in Ursa Major) (Mike_Stutters)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Bode's galaxy · Bode's nebulae · Cigar galaxy · M 81 · M 82 · NGC 3031 · NGC 3034

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M81 and M82 (Bode's and Cigar Galaxies in Ursa Major)

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M81 and M82 (Bode's and Cigar Galaxies in Ursa Major)

I wanted to see if I could tease out more of the star-burst features of M82 compared with the image I posted almost a year ago. In that objective I think I have somewhat succeeded but sadly the colours in M81 seem to me not quite as good, at least for now.

This image is compiled from subs captured during 7 imaging sessions between Dec 2018 and March 2019

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Description: Recently managed to capture a few extra good quality subs for this target to add to my earlier data. As a result of reprocessing the old and new data I feel I have manged to bring out a little more surface detail on M81 and of the star-burst filiments on M82. Also slightly changed the angle of view of the targets which I also think is an improvement

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RA (center)	09h55m42s.16
RA (top/left)	10h01m19s.73
RA (top/right)	10h02m16s.82
RA (bottom/right)	09h49m45s.24
RA (bottom/left)	09h49m27s.15

Dec (center)	+69°20′57″.2
Dec (top/left)	+68°44′40″.4
Dec (top/right)	+69°53′22″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°56′31″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+68°47′43″.9

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