RedCat lurks with the Hunting Dogs (M106/NGC4258) (Daniel Erickson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 106 · NGC 4217 · NGC 4220 · NGC 4226 · NGC 4231 · NGC 4232 · NGC 4248 · NGC 4258 · NGC 4346

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RedCat lurks with the Hunting Dogs (M106/NGC4258)

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RedCat lurks with the Hunting Dogs (M106/NGC4258)

Galaxy season continues--every RedCat owner's time of dismay and frustration. I don't know which is worse, having few presentable targets or having cloudy nights without an opportunity to shoot something at all. Still, with a four hour window between storms and pretty bad seeing, there is still no choice. We shoot! Many of my astro-friends have been imaging clusters, but I'm not quite ready to do that. The easiest thing to do was point straight up, which I essentially did. There, Lo and Behold!, lay M106 in the middle of Boötes' Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici). It's small, it's not bright, so it was the perfect opportunity to register another futile target with my beloved RedCat.

As it turned out, things were not so bad. I managed three hours on target, and despite the bad seeing, the image turned out better than I had hoped...The imaged galaxies are predictably fuzzy and lack detail, but the overall effect turned out well enough, in fact, to post here rather than being consigned to my dustbin of failed projects.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. I hope you enjoy it!

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RA (center)	12h17m33s.59
RA (top/left)	12h23m40s.30
RA (top/right)	12h10m32s.29
RA (bottom/right)	12h11m38s.30
RA (bottom/left)	12h24m25s.59

Dec (center)	+47°19′02″.4
Dec (top/left)	+48°09′04″.2
Dec (top/right)	+47°54′32″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+46°27′44″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+46°41′51″.7

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