Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4284  ·  NGC 4290  ·  The star 70UMa
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I came across some data that I had been sitting on as I was not very impressed with the initial stacking results. But with endless cloudy nights I decided to go ahead and try to process it as best as I could. M40 itself is a not very spectacular optical double star seen in the bottom right of my image. And it is a wonder why Messier even included it. Most think that he was searching for a nebulous area that had been reported in the vicinity which in my image you can make out as 12th magnitude barred spiral/early type ring galaxy NGC 4290. Online sources show it to be around 150 MLY distant. Also found are galaxies NGC 4284 and PGC 39934 (17th mag). Hope you enjoy. Moon is getting full so surely we will have some clear skies soon.

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M40_NGC 4290_NGC4284_PGC 39934, Space_Man_Spiff