M82 - Cigar Galaxy (Filippo Scopelliti)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Cigar Galaxy · M 82 · NGC 3034

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M82 - Cigar Galaxy

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M82 - Cigar Galaxy

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

During the exceptional nights in which I captured the NGC2392 nebula, once the first subject went down, I imaged this very interesting galaxy. It is amazing through the ocular. Under good conditions the central dark bands are very evident even in direct vision and the finest details are easy to be seen. In photography such details become spectacular. The real challenge of this image were the H-alpha jets because with the short exposures and the very light polluted sky of my place the difference in signal between the sky background and the object is minimal and the raw was really noisy. Obviously these jets in my picture are barely present and I hope in the future to have the opportunity to image them again under a darker sky.
I hope you like it.

Dobson 600mm f3.8
StellarCAT - Nexus DSC
ASI2600MM
L 6.000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
R 3000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
G 3000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
B 3000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
H-alpha 8000 x 1 sec. bin 1 -10°
Astronomik L2 filter 2" mounted
Astronomik H-alpha 12 nm filter 2" mounted
Dark x 150
Paracorr type 2
Falcon derotator
SharpCap - SiriL - PixInsight - PS - AstroSurface
Bortle 8
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Description: When an astrophotographer learns new techniques, I think it is normal to try to apply those techniques to some old nice data. I love this galaxy, especially because of the amount of fine details in its core, so I decided to try to apply the various RC-astro amazing softwares to try to let my stars better. The rest fo the picture is essentially the same.

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Astrometry.net job	6278021
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RA (center)	09h55m51s.329
RA (top/left)	09h58m04s.130
RA (top/right)	09h53m44s.899
RA (bottom/right)	09h53m40s.404
RA (bottom/left)	09h57m56s.208

Dec (center)	+69°40′51″.94
Dec (top/left)	+69°49′02″.29
Dec (top/right)	+69°49′43″.19
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°32′35″.40
Dec (bottom/left)	+69°31′54″.20

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