M82 Galaxy



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Date: Taken over 2 nights: 25/26 March 2020
Location: High Halden, Kent
Exposure: 650 x 30sec at ISO 10000
Telescope: Celestron C11 with Starizona 0.72x LF SCT corrector
Camera: H-alpha modified Sony A7S
Guiding: Nikkor 300mm lens with QHY5 camera.
Filters: IR/UV cut filter
Processing: Stacked in PixInsight and stretched with Arcsinh Stretch
Comments: The jets in this image look more subtle than many other images you'll find because I deliberately didn't take separate data through an H-alpha filter and add it on top