Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's nebulae  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034  ·  NGC 3077
M81 group, Harrington Beach Imagers Group
M81 group
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M81 group, Harrington Beach Imagers Group
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The Moon was near full, the skies were rife with high cirrus and passing low clouds, and I live in a white zone. All things not very conducive for imaging. I was testing new equipment and software and wanted to make sure things played nice before taking the setup out to darker skies. I was playing around with the sequencing and decided to slew, plate solve, and capture a couple handfuls of images. LRGBHa channels were a mere 3x120s because clouds kept breaking things up. I also had unknowingly turned binning on to 2x2, really limiting resolution. This is the result.

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M81 group, Harrington Beach Imagers Group