Imaging telescopes or lenses: Planewave CDK17
Imaging cameras: Finger Lakes Instrumenttaion Proline 16803
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Planewave CDK17
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2
Software: PHD2 PHD 2.6.2 · PixInsight 1.8 Pisinsight 1.8
Filters: Blue · Green · Red
Dates:Feb. 21, 2020
Frames:
Blue: 8x600"
Chroma Ha 3nm: 3x1200"
Green: 8x600"
Red: 8x600"
Integration: 5.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 27.57 days
Avg. Moon phase: 4.28%
Astrometry.net job: 3291991
RA center: 12h 18' 54"
DEC center: +47° 18' 25"
Pixel scale: 0.636 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 270.578 degrees
Field radius: 0.320 degrees
Resolution: 2698x2422
Locations: steve, Orange county, NY, United States
Data source: Backyard
M106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth.
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Description: 3 hours of RGB data from 2019 were added.
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