Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034
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M81 and M82, Bode's "Nebula" and Cigar Galaxy, Robin Livermore
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M81 and M82, Bode's "Nebula" and Cigar Galaxy

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M81 and M82, Bode's "Nebula" and Cigar Galaxy, Robin Livermore
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M81 and M82, Bode's "Nebula" and Cigar Galaxy

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M81 and M82 taken from my house in Carmarthenshire, Wales. A 2 panel mosaic. I'd rotated the camera 90 degrees for this, and found afterwards that the OAG prism had cast a shadow over one side of the frames. This seems to have been largely removed by the flats fortunately!

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M81 and M82, Bode's "Nebula" and Cigar Galaxy, Robin Livermore