Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 97  ·  NGC 3587  ·  Owl Nebula  ·  PK148+57.1
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M97 Owl Nebula, Robin Livermore
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M97 Owl Nebula

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M97 Owl Nebula

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I'm now spending a month or two shooting smaller targets with my 8 Edge HD and reducer.

This is M97, the Owl Nebula. I tried this target as a fairly wide field with the RASA 11 in February, and found that I got a lot of red Ha showing up, even without a filter. However, I got a lot less with the 8 Edge, and decided to combine the lower resolution image into the end result rather than shoot any narrowband data.

I think the smudge to the lower right of the PN is a distant galaxy - I haven't looked this up, but an annotated entry on Astrobin by Christophe names this as MCG +9-19-014 at 452 million AL (AU?). I'll try and look it up if I can work out how.

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M97 Owl Nebula, Robin Livermore