M82 A Starburst Galaxy (Andrea Girones)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Cigar Galaxy · M 82 · NGC 3034

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M82 A Starburst Galaxy

Messier 82- A Starburst Galaxy
Some galaxies are especially good at generating bright new stars and have so much galactic dust and gas that they create stars at a furious rate. M82 is also called the “Cigar galaxy” due the red glow of Hydrogen “smoke” emanating from its galactic core.

A close encounter with its galactic neighbour M81 may have pushed all the gas towards the centre of the galaxy, reaching densities sufficient to create massive new stars. When these massive stars collapse or go supernova, the gas is again compressed by shock waves and the star creation cycle continues.

My image was shot from the Ottawa backyard using long exposures captured over 10 hours during a single long Canadian winter night. I compared it to a Hubble image and was quite impressed with how well my land based image compared.

EXIF: Celestron 11” SCT with a 0.7x reducer, focal length of 1960mm
Camera: ASI2600MM ( APC-C sized sensor)
Antlia LRGB filters, Astronomik HA filter
1 hours for R G B
2 Hours HA
6 LUM
300s exposures Gain 100 -10 sensor
Guided with and OAG and the 174mm mini guide camera

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RA (center)	09h55m49s.800
RA (top/left)	09h53m45s.307
RA (top/right)	09h53m18s.910
RA (bottom/right)	09h57m49s.762
RA (bottom/left)	09h58m23s.170

Dec (center)	+69°40′03″.53
Dec (top/left)	+69°57′12″.71
Dec (top/right)	+69°24′41″.30
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°22′47″.58
Dec (bottom/left)	+69°55′17″.30

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