M106, an active galaxy in Canes Venatici (Patrick Hsieh)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 106 · NGC 4231 · NGC 4232 · NGC 4248 · NGC 4258

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M106, an active galaxy in Canes Venatici

Intermittent passing wisps of clouds and seeing that frankly wasn't quite up to imaging at 2800mm focal length made it a challenge, but I did manage to grab a starter set of data on M106, an active galaxy approx 25 million light-years distant in Canes Venatici. It is best known for a oddly warped and crazily tilted disk (60 deg to the galactic core!) and two "anomalous arms" of hot hydrogen gas spewing out of the core at weird angles.

I want at least 2x to 3x more data on this target, hopefully with better seeing so I can sharpen it up some. This is only 1 hour each in red, green, and blue, with around 4 hours of hydrogen-alpha data to capture the arms. Imaged from just outside Las Vegas, Celestron C11 Edge, ASI6200MM, Chroma 3nm Ha + RGB filters, AP1100GTO mount.

10 * 300s each RGB, 14 * 900s H-a

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Description: Reprocessed with the XTerminators, and a bit more of a natural color scheme. Thanks for looking!

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RA (center)	12h18m51s.654
RA (top/left)	12h20m56s.760
RA (top/right)	12h16m45s.701
RA (bottom/right)	12h16m47s.711
RA (bottom/left)	12h20m56s.439

Dec (center)	+47°17′35″.69
Dec (top/left)	+47°31′47″.22
Dec (top/right)	+47°31′34″.17
Dec (bottom/right)	+47°03′16″.96
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°03′28″.32

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