Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  NGC 3031
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M81, jLanc
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M81

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M81

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Messier 81 is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

This was my first image capture of the year, and my first session of data gathering since mid November, so almost 3 months no imaging! Typical UK weather for sure.


Overall reasonably happy with the outcome here. Even though the RC6 wasn't collimated well, BlurXterminator did the heavy lifting here and sorting most of it out.

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M81, jLanc