Cigar Galaxy - HaLRGB M82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy…
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Cigar Galaxy - HaLRGB
M82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy due to its long, narrow profile when viewed from Earth, is a vibrant starburst galaxy located roughly 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is celebrated as a cosmic factory, churning out new stars at a rate nearly ten times faster than our own Milky Way. This intense bursts of star formation is fueled by a close gravitational encounter with its neighbor, the spiral galaxy M81, which compressed gas clouds deep within M82's core. As a consequence of this furious stellar birthrate and subsequent supernova explosions, a powerful "superwind" drives massive, glowing plumes of hot hydrogen gas and dust thousands of light-years out into space, sculpted into dramatic red filaments that blast perpendicular to the galaxy's main disk.
This HaLRGB image was captured in a Queen Creek (Arizona) Bortle 7/8 backyard using a Skywatcher Esprit 150ED telescope. The telescope is mounted on a 10Micron GM2000 HPS II mount. The camera is a ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro using Antlia VPRO LRGB and 3nm HA filters. It was captured over 48 nights (2022-12-20 to 2025-02-26). The images were captured using NINA and stacked/processed in PixInsight.
Full image and capture details available at Astrobin: https://app.astrobin.com/i/c58smv
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frustratedphoton/
Acquisition:
* Location: Queen Creek, AZ Bortle 7/8
* Dates: 2022-12-20 to 2025-02-26
* Lights (Dithered, Cooled -10°C, Gain 100):
* 1750 x 60s L
* 150 x 300s R
* 150 x 300s G
* 150 x 300s B
* 375 x 600s HA
* Bias: 200
* Flats: 25 Each Filter
Hardware:
* Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MM PRO
* Scope: Skywatcher Esprit 150ED
* Focuser: FocusCube2
* Guide Camera: ASI 174mm Mini
* Guide Scope: ZWO OAG-L
* Rotator: Falcon V2
* Mount: GM2000 HPS II
* Filters: Antlia VPRO LRGB, 3nm HA
Software:
* NINA
* PixInsight
Processing:
Dynamic Crop, Gradient Correction, Channel Comb, SPCC, BlurXterminator, NoiseXterminator, GHS, Saturation, L Sharpening, LRGB Comb
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M82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy due to its long, narrow profile when viewed from Earth, is a vibrant starburst galaxy located roughly 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is celebrated as a cosmic factory, churning out new stars at a rate nearly ten times faster than our own Milky Way. This intense bursts of star formation is fueled by a close gravitational encounter with its neighbor, the spiral galaxy M81, which compressed gas clouds deep within M82's core. As a consequence of this furious stellar birthrate and subsequent supernova explosions, a powerful "superwind" drives massive, glowing plumes of hot hydrogen gas and dust thousands of light-years out into space, sculpted into dramatic red filaments that blast perpendicular to the galaxy's main disk.
This HaLRGB image was captured in a Queen Creek (Arizona) Bortle 7/8 backyard using a Skywatcher Esprit 150ED telescope. The telescope is mounted on a 10Micron GM2000 HPS II mount. The camera is a ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro using Antlia VPRO LRGB and 3nm HA filters. It was captured over 48 nights (2022-12-20 to 2025-02-26). The images were captured using NINA and stacked/processed in PixInsight.
Full image and capture details available at Astrobin: https://app.astrobin.com/i/c58smv
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frustratedphoton/
Acquisition:
* Location: Queen Creek, AZ Bortle 7/8
* Dates: 2022-12-20 to 2025-02-26
* Lights (Dithered, Cooled -10°C, Gain 100):
* 1750 x 60s L
* 150 x 300s R
* 150 x 300s G
* 150 x 300s B
* 375 x 600s HA
* Bias: 200
* Flats: 25 Each Filter
Hardware:
* Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MM PRO
* Scope: Skywatcher Esprit 150ED
* Focuser: FocusCube2
* Guide Camera: ASI 174mm Mini
* Guide Scope: ZWO OAG-L
* Rotator: Falcon V2
* Mount: GM2000 HPS II
* Filters: Antlia VPRO LRGB, 3nm HA
Software:
* NINA
* PixInsight
Processing:
Dynamic Crop, Gradient Correction, Channel Comb, SPCC, BlurXterminator, NoiseXterminator, GHS, Saturation, L Sharpening, LRGB Comb
#space
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