M 106 (NGC 4258) Galaxy in Canes Venatici

Located at: RA 12 hours 18 minutes 57 seconds, Dec +47 degrees 18 minutes 31 seconds

Size: 18.8' x 7.3', Magnitude: 9.1 blue; Class: Sb

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

  ST-8XME self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15c & -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 300 minutes (30 x 10 minutes) 05/07/08/10/2007

Processing:

CCDStack 1.2, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Notes:

This image replaces a 100 minute red-filtered sequence from 06/04/2006