M82 Cigar Galaxy (M82 Cigar Galaxy)

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:50:04 -0300

A cropped image of M82, the Cigar Galaxy M82 was discovered, along with its neighbor M81, by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode in 1774. Located 12 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, M82 has an apparent magnitude of 8.4

Total image time was 14.67 hours.

Exposure

12x20 min.

ISO

3200

Camera

Nikon Z7 [8856 x 5504]

Optics

120mm Skywatcher Esprit on a Celestron CGX mount

Guiding

ZWO ASI224MC using Phd2

Controller

Kstars on MeLe Quieter 3C

Filter

Triad Quad Ultra

Location

Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.

Date

2021-03-21 -> 2023-02-19

Processing

Processed in PixInsight.

Dynamic Background Extractor

BlurXTerminator

NoiseXTerminator

ScreenTransfer Stretch

StarXTerminator

CurvesTransformation on the starless image

PixelMath recombination

Date: March 26, 2025

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M82 Cigar Galaxy (M82 Cigar Galaxy)