Observation by Paul Whitmarsh: M81 "A long time coming"

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Paul Whitmarsh

Observer

Paul Whitmarsh

Observed

2017 Jan 22 - 01:30

Uploaded

2017 Jan 24 - 00:14

Objects

M81

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Constellation

Ursa Major

Field centre

RA: 09^h55^m
Dec: +69°04'
Position angle: +179°28'

Field size

0°21' × 0°16'

Equipment

Altair GSO 10" F8
Starlight Xpress Trius 694
Starlight Xpress Loadstar x2
Starlight Xpress LF AO
Starlight Xpress OAG

Exposure

6 * 600s

Location

Nr Uckfield, East Sussex

Target name

Messier 81, NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy

Title

M81 "A long time coming"

About this image

I've had this telescope for nearly three years, due to a number of factors I had been unable to observe. Finally this Christmas I was fit enough and got round to getting the telescope and camera operational, this was the first 1x1 binned image, I was very pleased with how all the kit behaved.

A check using Aladin revels that some of M81's Globular Clusters have been recorded in the image.

Files associated with this observation

M81-Small.png (437.0 kB)

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Paul Anthony Brierley, David Basey, Jeremy Shears, Nick Hewitt

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