"...features of M106: its extra pair of arms. Most spiral galaxies only have one pair of arms, but M106 has an extra set, seen here as red wisps of gas...these two extra arms are made up of hot gas rather than stars."
"M106 was discovered by Charles Messier’s observing assistant, Pierre Méchain, in 1781. It is located 24 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici... M106 has a relatively bright apparent magnitude of 9.1"
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-106In January 2021 I begin to process all the data that Mauri acquired in several targets, a lot of them galaxies during 2020. This is one of them that was done between Dec. 2019 until May 2020.
I like this extraordinary Triplet as in that sky area not only the M 106 galaxy spikes its finest beauty but the other two as a lot of tiny ones around showing different positions and stars associated with its own system.
The main stack contained the session done with Enhanced and L-Pro filter with its own 'creative flat and dark' in DSS.
Processing it was a bit more easy but the background always has a noise to take care. Bring more details the centre of the M 106 was a bit challenged as its outer faint spiral arms. It was nice to work on these galaxies.
Process January, 2021.
https://twitter.com/AstroOtus/status/1352990073457930240https://twitter.com/AstroOtus/status/1352990066071756800
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