M106
I felt that I should post a DSO after the rash of aurora postings.
Not quite ready for prime time - > By my own admission, this is a rough and short exposure image of one of my favourite DSO's M106. I debated with myself on whether I should put this up on AB, and here we are.
As you can see there is some stray "stuff" in this image that I didn't do a good job of calibrating out. My skills at processing highly light polluted subs is in the baby steps phase.
I took this image of M106 in our backyard using my C8 edge at native focal length (2032 mm) at F10.. using a 15 x 180 second exposures. So, roughly 45' on this DSO. Its a nice galaxy.. and in this image is arranged on end. Just an experiment while collimating the C8. This is a luminance image, so no colour is apparent.
From Sky safari: Messier 106 is an Sb spiral system, with a tightly wound galaxy. The spiral arms end in bright blue knots, which are young star clusters dominated by very hot, luminous, massive stars which only have a lifetime of a few million years.
Thanks for looking!
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