M82 Cigar Galaxy - First Light with FLI ML16200 - Image #1 (Ben Koltenbah)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Bode's nebulae · Cigar galaxy · M 82 · NGC 3034

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This is M82 the Cigar Galaxy. It is one of three first light images using my new FLI ML16200 camera. The frames were taken right around the full moon from my suburban backyard. I limited the exposures to 3 min and still blew out the stars, however I was excited to have a camera that imaged (mostly) circular stars and provided a wider FOV than my old camera. For the LRGB I ended up only using limited number of frames. I hope to revisit the Cigar Galaxy in a few months when it rises earlier, at which time I will take more color frames and experiment more with exposure length.

The other two first light targets were nebulae imaged in NB, and I hope to post those soon as they were more suitable to capture around the full moon.

The wider images show almost the full FOV:

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I also provide a mosaic of cropped images showing a tighter FOV.

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RA (center)	09h55m50s.86
RA (top/left)	09h52m15s.35
RA (top/right)	09h52m32s.88
RA (bottom/right)	09h59m19s.16
RA (bottom/left)	09h59m15s.98

Dec (center)	+69°41′12″.5
Dec (top/left)	+70°03′01″.8
Dec (top/right)	+69°18′22″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°19′06″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+70°03′46″.3

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