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Description:
It is a bright spiral galaxy located at Canes Venatici constellation. It lies at a approximate distance of 21 to 25 light years from our Milky Way. With a visual magnitude of 8.4, it spans over 19'x8'.

It is also known as a Seyfert galaxy, due to its X ray emission detected. It is believed that a part of the galaxy is falling in a supermassive black hole at its center.

Lens:

Vixen VC200L at f/6.4

F/stop:

f6.4

Exposure:

9 x 600s L (binning 1x1).

Mount:

Vixen Sphinx SXD

Camera:

Artemis 4021

Filters:

Luminance astronomik filter

Autoguide:

WO Zenithstar 66 f/5.9 throught Meade DSI and PhD Guiding software

Location:

Pla de la Calma,Montseny, Barcelona

Date:

April 5th, 2008

Processing:

Aligned, calibrated and stacked with DSS, and Postprocessed with PixInsight 1.0

M106

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Description: It is a bright spiral galaxy located at Canes Venatici constellation. It lies at a approximate distance of 21 to 25 light years from our Milky Way. With a visual magnitude of 8.4, it spans over 19'x8'.

It is also known as a Seyfert galaxy, due to its X ray emission detected. It is believed that a part of the galaxy is falling in a supermassive black hole at its center.

Lens: Vixen VC200L at f/6.4

F/stop: f6.4

Exposure: 9 x 600s L (binning 1x1).

Mount: Vixen Sphinx SXD

Camera: Artemis 4021

Filters: Luminance astronomik filter

Autoguide: WO Zenithstar 66 f/5.9 throught Meade DSI and PhD Guiding software

Location: Pla de la Calma,Montseny, Barcelona

Date: April 5th, 2008

Processing: Aligned, calibrated and stacked with DSS, and Postprocessed with PixInsight 1.0

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