Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 106  ·  NGC 4248  ·  NGC 4258
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M106 - Christopher Gomez's data/Astrobin Public Pool, Arun H
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M106 - Christopher Gomez's data/Astrobin Public Pool, Arun H
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M106 - Christopher Gomez's data/Astrobin Public Pool

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This is my process of the data kindly shared by Christopher Gomez and part of the Astrobin Public Pool. This is astonishingly good data and was a delight to process as I wait for better weather in Wisconsin to generate my own. This is an LRGB+Ha image; Christopher Gomez's original image is at: https://www.astrobin.com/284809/ along with imaging details. I chose to use photometric color calibration, which gives a bit different color than his. I also did not blend in as much H-alpha as he did.

Messier 106 is located 24 million light years away from our solar system. The NASA page with details of M106, along with a high res Hubble photograph supplemented with ground based data is at https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-106.

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M106 - Christopher Gomez's data/Astrobin Public Pool, Arun H