Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Cigar Galaxy  ·  IC 2385  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3034
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M82 - Cigar Galaxy (L+HaRGB), Dhaval Brahmbhatt
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M82 - Cigar Galaxy (L+HaRGB)

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M82 - Cigar Galaxy (L+HaRGB), Dhaval Brahmbhatt
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M82 - Cigar Galaxy (L+HaRGB)

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M82 - A classic. I fell in love with this target the first time I had imaged it from my backyard with a relatively widefield system. Since then, I have come back to this target a couple of times, but never been satisfied. This time, I decided to just increase the data many folds. I am hoping I have been able to do some justice to this target.

It is a difficult target, especially at the image scale that I have chosen to image it at. Thankfully, the weather has cooperated and the seeing for the most part was decent. While there is a lot of IFN in this region, I have chosen to crop it out and just focus on the galaxy itself.

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M82 - Cigar Galaxy (L+HaRGB), Dhaval Brahmbhatt