Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It has a D25 isophotal diameter of 29.44 kiloparsecs (96,000 light-years).
[Source: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_81]
Object M82 the Cigar Galaxy (taken while the moon was at 94% illumination).
Exposure 9@ 60 sec sub frames
ISO 3200
Camera Nikon D800 [7360 x 4912]
Optics Prime focus of a 10" Meade SCT f/10, 2500 mm focal length on a Celestron CGEM DX mount.
Location Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.
Date 2018-06-01
Processing Captured using Kstars EKOS 2.9.6 and indilib v1.7.0. Processed in PixInsight and tweaked in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Exposure 9@ 60 sec sub frames
ISO 3200
Camera Nikon D800 [7360 x 4912]
Optics Prime focus of a 10" Meade SCT f/10, 2500 mm focal length on a Celestron CGEM DX mount.
Location Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.
Date 2018-06-01
Processing Captured using Kstars EKOS 2.9.6 and indilib v1.7.0. Processed in PixInsight and tweaked in Photoshop and Lightroom.
