Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034
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Bodes and Cigar Galaxies, joec.
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Bodes and Cigar Galaxies

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Bodes and Cigar Galaxies

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This is the first thing I imaged when I got my rig put together this year back in early June and after about a 10 year vacation from trying to take DSO photos. I played with just the mount tracking. This was the first night using a polemaster so did different time slots to check for star trails. I manage to get a 10 minute exposure that came out ok. This is a mix of 45, 120, 60, 300 and a 600 second exposure that ended with a total of 65 minutes on Bodes. I then cropped it to center and have both galaxies in 1 picture. This was done with a canon 450 camera and prior to a guide scope and coma corrector.

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Bodes and Cigar Galaxies, joec.