Observation by Grant Privett: Yet Another M101

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Grant Privett

Observer

Grant Privett

Observed

2023 May 26 - 23:30

Uploaded

2023 May 30 - 20:26

Objects

M101

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Constellation

Ursa Major

Field centre

RA: 14^h03^m
Dec: +54°20'
Position angle: +97°25'

Field size

0°35' × 0°28'

Equipment

NEQ6+Rowan belt upgrade
Starlight Trius 694 mono
300mm f/4 Newtonian

Exposure

7x 600s

Location

Near Salisbury

Target name

M101

Title

Yet Another M101

About this image

As I had just got off axis guiding going for the first time since 2017 I had a go at a series of 600s exposures of something tolerably bright and overhead. Loads of satellites but after normalising the sky backgrounds AstroArt 8 mopped up the trails nicely.

Moon was up and its summer so the 10 minute exposures led to a reduced dynamic range as the background count was 20,000 counts.

Files associated with this observation

m101_SN_20230526.jpg (1019.2 kB)

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