Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's nebulae  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 2976  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034  ·  NGC 3077
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M81, M82 and surrounding IFN, Nicolas Kizilian
M81, M82 and surrounding IFN
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M81, M82 and surrounding IFN

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M81, M82 and surrounding IFN, Nicolas Kizilian
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M81, M82 and surrounding IFN

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While waiting for the big nebulae next summer, I tried my hand at capturing the two famous galaxies M81 and M82, highlighting the surrounding IFN.

This is a very dense region for galaxies, there are not less than 126 galaxies in this image !

What's the IFN ? The iFN is high galactic latitude nebulae that are illuminated not by a single star (as most nebula in the plane of the Galaxy are) but by the energy from the integrated flux of all the stars in the Milky Way.

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M81, M82 and surrounding IFN, Nicolas Kizilian