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M82: Irregular Galaxy in Ursa Major

Right Ascension09 : 55.8 (h:m)
Declination+69 : 41 (deg:m)
Distance12000 (kly)
Visual Brightness8.4 (mag) 
Apparent Dimension9 x 4 (arc min)
More information on M82
 

17 stacked 33 second exposures using the PC camera with Dave Allmon's QCV2 software on the 8" Newtonian.

Dark frame processing, image alignment and stacking was done with Dave Allmon's DarkGen program.
Final processing performed with Photoshop.
2/1/2001

m82b:
This frame represents further mask processing of the same raw frame as the image above. m82c:

View the ST-237 images of M82