Photographer:
Brian McGaffney
Location of Photo:
Bancroft, Ontario Canada
Date/Time of photo:
April 04 2011
Equipment:
F9 300 Ceravolo Astro graph. ME mount, with Apogee U16M CCD and Astrodon filters
Description:
Taken at the Nutwood Observatory March 2011. Part of the pair M81 and M82. Perhaps the most perfect Spiral Galaxy in the night sky, thanks to close encounters with its neighbour M82 some 600 million years ago. It is a bright galaxy with magnitude of about 6.5
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