Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's nebulae  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034
M81 & M82, jgibsonemu
M81 & M82
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M81 & M82

M81 & M82, jgibsonemu
M81 & M82
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M81 & M82

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This is my recent attempt at imaging M81 & M82 from my dark sky site. This project started out with a goal of acquiring 11-14 hrs of data. Besides capturing the obvious galaxies I was intending to highlight the IFN. Due to the rather uncooperative weather here in Southern Arizona I was only able to acquire about 6.6 hours of data. While processing the image via a L-RGB approach I was able to tease out the IFN but the noise was far too terrible to call a finished image. So for now this is my M81/82 image and will be so until next time it is well placed for imaging. I will likely play around with this image again soon as I want to try and reduce the background noise a bit more.

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M81 & M82, jgibsonemu