M106


M106

Taken in June of 2013 at Wa-chur-ed Observatory, this is one of the few LRGB images done from my home observatory.  Generally speaking, galaxies are too dim to be photographed in such light-polluted skies and this probably would have shown more detail and color if I had done it at a dark sky site.

Scope: AT111EDT at f/5.6
Mount: AP Mach1 GTO
Camera: QSI 583 at –15C
Exposure: LRGB, 4.5 hrs total


About Greg Marshall

I am a retired electronics engineer and after a few months of enjoying my leisure I began to miss doing product development. My astronomy hobby always needed new solutions to unique problems, so I decided that whenever I came up with a good solution I would try to make it available to others.

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