Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3034
M82, Rob Johnson
M82
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M82

M82, Rob Johnson
M82
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M82

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With plenty of clear nights over the past two weeks it was a good time to gather lots of data even though the nights turned increasingly hazy (we're never happy you know!) First target was M82, with the full moon I began acquring Ha data over the next couple of nights then as the Moon rose later gathered LRGB. The Ha streams from M82 are not so bright so even with 4.5h of data they only show fairly weakly. This is my first visit to M82 in over 10 years and it's a big improvement over the last version which I'm pleased with, more Ha would have been desirable but I suspect doubling the time wouldn't have yielded much more.

Processed in PixInsight and the Ha data added in using Affinity Photo.

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