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Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  NGC 3031
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M@H 81: The Bode Galaxy from a Bortle 7 sky, Edoardo Luca Radice (Astroedo)
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M@H 81: The Bode Galaxy from a Bortle 7 sky

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M@H 81: The Bode Galaxy from a Bortle 7 sky, Edoardo Luca Radice (Astroedo)
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M@H 81: The Bode Galaxy from a Bortle 7 sky

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
C9.25
Imaging Cameras
Moravian Instruments G3-16200 MK II
Mounts
10Micron GM1000 HPS
Filters
Baader Green (G-CCD) 2" · Baader Red (R-CCD) 2" · Baader Planetarium Ha 2" 7nm · Baader Planetarium B 2"
Software
Seqence Generator Pro · Pixinsight
Guiding Cameras
10Micron HPS System

Acquisition details

Dates:
March 16, 2021
Frames:
Baader Green (G-CCD) 2": 34×300″(2h 50′) bin 1×1
Baader Planetarium B 2": 50×300″(4h 10′) bin 1×1
Baader Planetarium Ha 2" 7nm: 44×600″(7h 20′) bin 1×1
Baader Red (R-CCD) 2": 38×300″(3h 10′) -10°C bin 1×1
Integration:
17h 30′
Darks:
40
Flats:
30
Bias:
50
Avg. Moon age:
2.82 days
Avg. Moon phase:
8.75%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
7.00
Mean SQM:
18.40

RA center: 09h55m25s.746

DEC center: +69°04′52″.80

Pixel scale: 0.513 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 179.691 degrees

Field radius: 0.378 degrees

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Resolution: 4188x3258

File size: 8.2 MB

Locations: Castenedolo, Castenedolo, Italy

Data source: Backyard

Description

City astrophotography is a laborious sport: light pollution, poor transparency, neighbors' lights, the humidity of the "Po valley"...

... everything contributes making the work of the astrophotographer difficult.

Add the old "enemies": technical problems, veils, passing clouds, artificial satellites, which often force you to stop work prematurely and you will have the perfect failure recipe.

But in these difficult times of mobility, when even going to the mountains with friends under dark skies once a month has become a luxury ,we must be satisfied with the sky we have at home.

So we assemble the equipment in a garden illuminated by the atavistic fear of the darkness of mankind and try to look a little beyond the borders of the Eart's globe.

And here is the result of several nights of work in the last month and a half.

I am really proud of this image, even though it will never become an IOTD.

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M@H 81: The Bode Galaxy from a Bortle 7 sky, Edoardo Luca Radice (Astroedo)

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