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M81 and M82 swimming in IFN, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin
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M81 and M82 swimming in IFN, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin
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Acquisition details

RA center: 09h49m27s.10

DEC center: +69°2421.1

Pixel scale: 1.462 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: -178.652 degrees

Field radius: 2.251 degrees

WCS transformation: thin plate spline

More info:Open 

Resolution: 9345x5957

File size: 33.3 MB

Data source: Traveller

Description

I processed this image with the main goal of bringing out as much IFN as possible. This is very difficult to do and meant I had to sacrifice a great amount of detail in the actual galaxies, and had to accept a rather annoying amount of noise from the background space. But because my priority was to display as much of the IFN as I could, I am okay with the result. M81 is still beautiful and the starburst galaxy M82 shows a ton of Hydrogen Alpha which is great. I do not have much experience with processing IFN so this was a great challenge!
The data was acquired by Craig Stocks from Utah Desert Remote Observatories.

Please see this link for all information and previous images: https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/m81-m82-bode-s-galaxy-the-cigar-galaxy

Acquisition Info:
Target: M81/M82 with IFN
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM
Filters: LRGBHa
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106
Time total: 20.25 hours total.

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M81 and M82 swimming in IFN, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin