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Description: It is a spiral galaxy that form a physical pair with its neighbour M82. It was discovered by Johann Elert Bode on 1774 and is located at about 11 million light years from our galaxy.
It has a visual brightness of 6.4 and spans about 21x10'

Lens:

Newtonian Vixen R200SS + tele-extender

F/stop:

f7.5

Exposure:

6 x 600s

Mount:

Vixen Sphinx SXD

Camera:

Artemis 4021

ISO:

Filter:

IR-UV cut

Autoguide:

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

Location:

Montseny, Barcelona

Date:

February 6th, 2008

Processing:

Aligned and calibrated with ImagesPlus, stacked with MaximDL and Postprocessed with PixInsight 1.0

M81

Click here to enlarge

Description: It is a spiral galaxy that form a physical pair with its neighbour M82. It was discovered by Johann Elert Bode on 1774 and is located at about 11 million light years from our galaxy. It has a visual brightness of 6.4 and spans about 21x10'

Lens: Newtonian Vixen R200SS + tele-extender

F/stop: f7.5

Exposure: 6 x 600s

Mount: Vixen Sphinx SXD

Camera: Artemis 4021

ISO:

Filter: IR-UV cut

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

Location: Montseny, Barcelona

Date: February 6th, 2008

Processing: Aligned and calibrated with ImagesPlus, stacked with MaximDL and Postprocessed with PixInsight 1.0

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