Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 108  ·  M 97  ·  NGC 3556  ·  NGC 3587  ·  Owl Nebula
An Owl and a Surfboard, Derek Dailey
An Owl and a Surfboard
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An Owl and a Surfboard

An Owl and a Surfboard, Derek Dailey
An Owl and a Surfboard
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An Owl and a Surfboard

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I took this one back in May while solo camping and doing some dark sky astrophotography and I completely forgot about it due to the craziness in my life over the summer. I just found the subs while cleaning up files on a memory card. Dark sky data is so much easier to process! Anyway here's M97 Owl Nebula and M108 Surfboard Galaxy. Even though they appear to be close the Nebula is 2000 light year's away and the galaxy is 46 million light years away!

Nerdy details:
Acquisition: Bortle Zone
ASTRO-TECH AT65EDQ 65MM F/6.5 ED QUADRUPLET 420mm f/6.5
ZWO ASI533MC Pro Camera
ZWO ASI120MC Guide camera
Optolong UV/IR filter
Gain 100, Offset 70, -10C
Losmandy GM8 mount
Stellarmate INDI Controller
75 x 180 sec. Light frames L-Pro . (3 hours 45 Minutes)
Calibration frames: 25 each darks, flats and dark flats
Astro Pixel Processor for stacking and processing
Post finishing in Photoshop

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An Owl and a Surfboard, Derek Dailey