M 108 (NGC 3556) Galaxy in Ursa Major

Located at: RA 11 hours 11 minutes 30 seconds, Dec +55 degrees 40 minutes 19 seconds

Size: 8.7' x 2.2'; Magnitude: 10.7 blue; Class: SB(s)cd sp

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

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

Image:

Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 470 minutes (47 x 10 minute subs), 03/09/10/14/2008; FWHM 2.5-4.1 per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 1.3.2, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

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

Notes:

This image replaces a red-filtered 75 minute Track & Accumulated image from 04/19/2006