Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 106  ·  NGC 4217  ·  NGC 4220  ·  NGC 4248  ·  NGC 4258
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M106 from the city of Sofia, Ivan Raichev
M106 from the city of Sofia
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M106 from the city of Sofia

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M106 from the city of Sofia, Ivan Raichev
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M106 from the city of Sofia

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Description

The Galaxy Season is here and I made a list of the bigger galaxies to go after with my RASA8. M106 is one of them. Despite it being 17x6.2 archmin in size it takes only 526x233 pixels on my sensor. Nevertheless some details on the core and arms are visible.

I am surprised however from the surrounding galaxies and namely - NGC 4217. Wow it's a small Sombrero

NGC 4232 has some peculiar form but it is so small in my view that one can only imagine how it really looks.

For this target I cooled the camera to -20 and enabled dithering. As a result the galaxy is shining so the noise in the background is not that visible.

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  • M106 from the city of Sofia, Ivan Raichev
    Original
  • M106 from the city of Sofia, Ivan Raichev
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    M106 from the city of Sofia, Ivan Raichev
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C

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M106 from the city of Sofia, Ivan Raichev

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Celestron RASA
ASI533MC Pro