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 |