Messier 82 and NGC 4565
by Vern on Mar.24, 2006, under Astronomy, Deep sky, Galaxy
Below image of Messier 82, the “Cigar Galaxy” in Ursa Major was taken with a Celestron Nexstar11, a Meade F3.3 focal reducer, and an Astrovid Stellacam2 video camera. M82 is a disk irregular galaxy located 12 million light years ago. It is believed that M82 has been distorted by a recent interaction with nearby M81. The sky was mostly clear, temperature was 32°F, turbulence was 7/10, and transparency was good.
Next I took some images of NGC 4565 in Coma Berenices. NGC 4565 is a beautiful, large, and bright edge on galaxy approximately 35 million light years from earth. Same conditions and equipment above. Both images from a 20 minutes of video taken with 8.5 second integration, gain 7.5/14, dark substracted and aligned with Registax3.
1 comment for this entry:
March 25th, 2006 on 11:33 am
I really like the shot that you have of NGC 4565.If the skies ever clear up,I would like to see if I can get a shot of it.Nice job!!.