Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  HD85161  ·  HD85458  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034
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Bode and the Cigar (M81, M82, Multiresolution), Linwood Ferguson
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Bode and the Cigar (M81, M82, Multiresolution)

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Bode and the Cigar (M81, M82, Multiresolution), Linwood Ferguson
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Bode and the Cigar (M81, M82, Multiresolution)

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This is something different.  I had M81 and M82 from a C11 Edge at 2800mm, separately.  I also did both targets with an SVX152T.  This is a combination of these stacked together, but not done as a mosaic. The idea is by stacking on the targets I get the combined integration time and less noise. The M81 was just a bit more time, but for M82 I had quite a lot of additional time.

What I also got were two ugly rectangles from different sky backgrounds. As I was giving up, @eigenVector was kind enough to provide some multi-scale magic that got me going.

The background has about 41 hours, M81 collectively then only 48 hours, and M82 about 90 hours.

This was taken almost entirely from my B-7 back yard, with one night on the 152 at a B-3 site at Big Cypress.

Please do consider looking at the SVX152T (only) version at 1200mm:  https://www.astrobin.com/q1ovbu/

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