This Year's Attempt at M81 and M82 (John Noble)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Bode's Galaxy · Cigar Galaxy · HD83489 · HD85161 · HD85458 · HD86574 · HD87703 · M 81 · M 82 · NGC 2959 · NGC 2961 · NGC 3031 · NGC 3034 · NGC 3077

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This Year's Attempt at M81 and M82

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This Year's Attempt at M81 and M82

I had three clear nights in the Bortle 7 back yard over the new moon last week and decided to take another go at M81 and M82. I shot this with my tandem rig so I was able to squeeze in 12 hours of imaging in one session. The Luminance was shot with my FLT132 and ASI 6200 MM while the Ha RGB was shot with the FLT91 and ASI 2600 MM.

Luminance 82 by 300 s
RGB 12 by 300 s each
Ha 36 by 300 s

I was pleased with how these two came out. I've posted two images the first is the data from my back yard session and the second is one with IFN added in from the Telescope live data I posted a month or so back. The IFN is there in the backyard data but it's too noisy to display.

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John

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Description: I smidge of IFN added

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RA (center)	09h55m23s.60
RA (top/left)	09h41m18s.41
RA (top/right)	10h09m47s.63
RA (bottom/right)	10h10m29s.87
RA (bottom/left)	09h39m58s.68

Dec (center)	+69°14′58″.3
Dec (top/left)	+68°27′03″.2
Dec (top/right)	+68°29′35″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°58′12″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+69°55′21″.8

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