Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 2976  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034  ·  NGC 3077
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M81 Galaxy Group with IFN, Rafał Szwejkowski

M81 Galaxy Group with IFN

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M81 Galaxy Group with IFN, Rafał Szwejkowski

M81 Galaxy Group with IFN

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

M81 group behind a rather dense veil of the IFN, shot from moderately dark skies (B5).

When I started collecting and processing this picture I was mostly after the galaxies themselves, only when I discovered all that mess that popped out of the background did I realize that it would be more about the IFN than the galaxies.

Canonically, the Ha channel was used to enhance the Ha regions in the galaxies.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

M81 Galaxy Group with IFN, Rafał Szwejkowski