Imaging telescopes or lenses: ASA EQ 1000
Imaging cameras: FLI Microline 16803
Mounts: ASA - Astro System Austria equatorial mount
Software: Adobe Photoshop CC · Pleiades Astrophoto PinInsight 1.8.7 Ripley
Filters: Baader Planetarium Baader LRGB 50mm
Astrometry.net job: 4157419
RA center: 9h 55' 45"
DEC center: +69° 40' 49"
Pixel scale: 0.273 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 91.549 degrees
Field radius: 0.181 degrees
Resolution: 3665x3047
Locations: Vega Sternwarte Haus der Natur, Salzburg, Austria
Messier 82 - The Cigar Galaxy is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
In this image you can see very nice the filaments of the red glowing expanding gas in the galaxy.
Taken with the ASA EQ1000 at the "Vega Sternwarte Haus der Natur Salzburg" (Austria).
Exposure time: 49 x 7min Luminance, 35 x 20min Ha and 30 x 7 min each RGB (all unbinned)
Total: 27.8 hours
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