By Paul Scharff | 2022-01-06
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On 01/04/2022 11:30 pm by David Hoskin| Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Owl Nebula (Messier 97) and the Surfboard Galaxy (Messier 108), imaged on 4 January 2022. Messier 97 is a planetary nebula about 2,030 light years from Earth. Messier 108 is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 46 million light years from Earth. Both of these Messier objects are located in Ursa Major.
Orion f/6 80mm ED80T-CF telescope with OVL field flattener, ZWO ASI533MC Pro camera with UV/IR cut filter, SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro mount
38 4-minute lights plus calibration frames were stacked using ImagesPlus; other post-processing with SiriL, Photoshop CS2 plus Astronomy Tools plugin, ImagesPlus and PhotoScape X
