Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro-Tech AT10RCCF
Imaging cameras: QSI 640 wsg-8
Mounts: AP900GTO
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Astro-Tech AT10RCCF
Guiding cameras: starlight Xpress lodestar
Focal reducers: CCDT67
Software: Maxim DL5 · photoshop cs5 · FocusMax · bf-astro Excalibrator · CCD Commander · ccdstack 2.0
Filters: Astrodon LRGB CCD Imaging Filters (I-Series) · Astrodon H-alpha 5nm
Dates:Jan. 17, 2015
Frames: 148x300"
Integration: 12.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 26.15 days
Avg. Moon phase: 12.38%
Astrometry.net job: 527433
RA center: 12h 18' 47"
DEC center: +47° 18' 50"
Orientation: -89.418 degrees
Field radius: 0.389 degrees
Resolution: 620x535
Locations: Home Observatory, Glenwood, Maryland, United States
M106 in Canes Venatici. Listed at aprox. 25mil Light Years distant - so about the same distance as M51. Listed as a Seyfert II "active" galaxy. The Ha signature I think shows this with the streamer coming of the core (red in the main image). Ha mixed into the red channel at 30%. Seeing was pretty rough, so anything beyond subtle sharpening attempts proved futile.
Original image = Ha raw data
Image B = LHaRGB
L = 51 x 300 1x1
Ha = 13 x 1200 1x1
R,G,B 15 x300 each (total 45) 2x2
Thanks,
John D
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