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Deep Sky Galaxy

M81 & M82

This picture was taken with the Canon 75-300 zoom before I bought the Williams Optics refractor. The focal length is 190mm and this image is about one quarter of the original field. Sixteen 3 minute exposures were combined and despite the short exposure time and mis-shapen stars some detail is visible in the galaxies. Also in the frame are two more smaller galaxies, NGC 2976 is on the right and NGC 3077 is at the bottom.

 

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