M81 (Bode's Galaxy) and M82 (Cigar Galaxy)
  • Details
    Date Taken: 08/04/2014
    Location: Backyard, Western Washington
    Telescope: Orion AstroView 120ST Equatorial Refractor Telescope
    Processing: Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker, edited in Photoshop
    Exposure: 10X30 sec, 10X45 sec, 10X60 sec
    Other Equipment Used: Canon Rebel T4i DSLR
    Notes: Two galaxies in one field of view. NGC 3077 was also in the field of view, but appeared too dim to see after the background was adjusted, so it was cropped out.