Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  NGC 3031
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M 81 Bode's Galaxy LRGB, Tom Peter AKA Astrovetteman
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M 81 Bode's Galaxy LRGB

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M 81 Bode's Galaxy LRGB, Tom Peter AKA Astrovetteman
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M 81 Bode's Galaxy LRGB

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I have actually had an entire week of clear skies, so I thought that I would get some galaxies imaged. Here's M 81, also known as Bode's Galaxy, taken with my NP127/ASI6200MM. M 81 lies at a distance of 12,000,000 light-years, has a diameter of around 90,000 light-years, and residing in it's nucleus is a supermassive black hole of 70,000,000 solar masses (15 times the mass of the Milky Ways black hole). The spiral arms are made up of young bluish hot stars which have formed in the past few million years and the stars in the core are considerably older, having formed around 600,000,000 years ago.

This image is very heavily cropped, since I took it at 660mm, so there's a lot of imperfections in it....especially the halos around the two stars at the lower right of the nucleus.....maybe I can figure out how to improve them.

Anyway, hope ya like it!

Tom

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M 81 Bode's Galaxy LRGB, Tom Peter AKA Astrovetteman

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