M81 (NGC 3031) Galaxy in Ursa Major

Located at: RA 09 hours 55 minutes 36 seconds, Dec +69 degrees 03 minutes 49 seconds

Size: 27.1' x 14.2'; Magnitude: 7.9 blue; Class: SA(s)ab

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, 360 minutes (36 x 10 minute subs), 02/08/10/2008; seeing 2.6-5.2 FWHM 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:

 See here for my 14.5" f5 Newtonian hypered Tech Pan film image of M 81