Vacuum Clean Galaxy (M109 / NGC3992) (DoubleStarPhotography)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: M 109 · NGC 3992 · PGC 2436214 · PGC 2437949 · PGC 2832093 · PGC 2832094 · PGC 2832098 · PGC 37621

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Vacuum Clean Galaxy (M109 / NGC3992)

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Vacuum Clean Galaxy (M109 / NGC3992)

M109 (NGC 3992) also referred to as the “Vacuum Cleaner Galaxy”, is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Ursa Major. It's estimated to be 83.5 Million light years from Earth, making it the furthest object in Messier’s catalogue. Despite its distance, it's relatively bright at magnitude 10.3

This is my second attempt on this galaxy. This go round I wanted to try and increase the scale so I shot this image using a 2x barlow. Was only able to get a bit over 4 hours total exposure (weather as only beginning to improve here when this shot was taken and clouds cut short this imaging run that night) but would love to re-visit again and add more to bring out additional structure and details.

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Astrometry.net job	7404993
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RA (center)	11h57m38s.369
RA (top/left)	11h58m39s.564
RA (top/right)	11h58m49s.154
RA (bottom/right)	11h56m36s.913
RA (bottom/left)	11h56m27s.874

Dec (center)	+53°21′48″.100
Dec (top/left)	+53°11′10″.62
Dec (top/right)	+53°30′54″.28
Dec (bottom/right)	+53°32′20″.60
Dec (bottom/left)	+53°12′40″.39

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