Tuesday, January 7, 2003

Galaxy M81

While experimenting with automatic tracking and stacking, I took this image of galaxy M81. The polar alignment of the telescope was poor, hence the common part of all sub-images was relatively small. So I ended up with a galaxy not even fitting in the final image.

Anyway, the spiral arms and dust in this galaxy are obvious.

20030106.m81.30x30s1x1-25.jpg


30x30s exposures combined (total 15 minutes). Camera cooled to -25°C.

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