Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034  ·  NGC 3077
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M81, M82, and friends, Arun H
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M81, M82, and friends

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M81, M82, and friends

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The famous spring duo of galaxies along with a few more. Taken from my Bortle 6 backyard; although I own a light pollution filter, I chose to simply use my luminance filter straight, judging that these were high enough that the light pollution wouldn't be significant. The luminance filter performed admirably, but I didn't realize that my filter wheel needed to be recalibrated until after the fact. This affected how much I could stretch the luminance image, but the SNR was still decent enough to yield a reasonable stretch.

This is the first time I've captured the starburst in M82.

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M81, M82, and friends, Arun H