Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 106  ·  NGC 4217  ·  NGC 4226  ·  NGC 4232  ·  NGC 4248  ·  NGC 4258
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M106 and the neighborhood, Jeff Marston
M106 and the neighborhood
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M106 and the neighborhood

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M106 and the neighborhood, Jeff Marston
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M106 and the neighborhood

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I love galaxy season. It gives me a chance to get away from imaging space gas for a while. 

I am still getting used to using an Asiair so I sometimes end up with image compositions I hadn’t intended to get. When my scope centered on M106 I saw that it had a vertical orientation. That wasn’t exactly what I wanted to do but one of my imaging buddies mentioned that I could just crop and rotate in post processing. I didn’t want to rotate my camera and refocus so I just went for it.
I got some interesting background galaxies I hadn’t seen before and except for a crop version I left it alone.

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M106 and the neighborhood, Jeff Marston