M 82 (NGC 3034, Arp 337) Galaxy in Ursa Major

Located at: RA 09 hours 55 minutes 53 seconds, Dec +69 degrees 40 minutes 57 seconds

Size: 11.3' x 4.2'; Magnitude: 9.3 blue; Class: I0 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:

Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 140 minutes (14 x 10 subs), 01/01/2007

Processing:

CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0

Location

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

Notes:

This images replaces a 120 minute red-filtered Track & Accumulate from 03/23/2006