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04/12/2024
09:00 pm

Equipment Details:

‏sky-watcher newton quattro 150p
‏With coma 518mm f3.5
‏‎‏svbony60mm
‏‎‏eq6
‏ZWO asi294mc
‏‎‏ zwo asi120mc
‏ l-enhance 2
Asiair

Post-processing Details:

Phtotshop and light room
Process siril

Image Details:

M81&m82
The cigar galaxy and the bode’s galaxy is a star explosion galaxy located in the constellation of the largest bear and is 12 million light-years away from us. The center of this galaxy is 100 times more brilliant than the center of our galaxy, and its apparent magnitude is approximately 8.4 away from us at a speed of 203 km/s (redshift). A collision between this galaxy and the large galaxy of 81 is expected and they merge with each other. Scientists in the past thought Messier 82 was an irregular galaxy