Messier Challenge - M 106 Spiral Galaxy

M 106 in Canes Venatici 26th March 2020 @ 22:27 UT

I really liked this galaxy. Great structure and the hint of a wispy fringe.

M106 - Canes Venatici

Image: 15 seconds x 120 frames (1950 seconds total), gain 6584, bin 2x2, Raw 14, black level 99, camera temperature 9 deg C, 1 dark. Stacked in SharpCap Pro 3.2.6248.0. The image was stacked and adjusted in SharpCap. The image was scaled down and cropped in GIMP.

M 106 - processed a little in GIMP to bring out a larger extent and more details.

I wanted to see a little more so I stretched the image a little more and applied a high pass filter to sharpen. All done in GIMP.

Equipment: Celestron CPC-800 at F5.9, Alt-Az mount, Altair Astro Hypercam 294C Pro Cooled (fan), Celestron Focuser, CPWI controlled remotely via Microsoft RDP and ASCOM.

Astrometry: M 106 is 25 million light years distant.

Charles Messier added M 106 in 1947 by Helen Sawyer Hogg.