M81 and M82 in Ha LRGB + Gianni Lacroce + LRGB HA3nm

M81 and M82 in Ha LRGB

Credit: Gianni Lacroce

Filters: LRGB and HA3nm narrowband filter

 

 

 

M81 and M82 in Ha LRGB
Bode’s Galaxy (M81), the Cigar Galaxy (M82) and the IFN (Integrated Flux Nebula) form one of the most spectacular and complex scenes in deep-sky astronomical photography 
The IFN is a veil of gas in the foreground that belongs to our own galaxy (it is about 500 light-years away from us). The galaxies M81 and M82, on the other hand, are in the background, about 11.5–12 million light-years away. Photographing them together is like capturing a distant galaxy through the clouds in our own sky
M81 (Bode’s Galaxy): A majestic spiral galaxy
M82 (Cigar Galaxy): A ‘starburst’ galaxy viewed edge-on, with powerful jets of ionised hydrogen (Hα) streaming from its nucleus, caused by gravitational interactions with the neighbouring M81

 

 

 

EQUIPMENT 
Imaging telescope: Askar 140apo
Imaging Camera: Asi 2600 mm
Mount: Az-eq6
Optolong Ha3nm, LRGB filters

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