Messier 81 and Messier 82

[Gary Clayton]

Messier 81 and Messier 82 about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, taken over the last two nights from my back garden and hindered by the Moon!.
159 X 5 minute subs, so just over 13 hours total intergartion time
Stacked and drizzled in Astro Pixel Processor then finished in PixInsight
StellaMira 90 with 0.8 reducer/flattener
IDAS D1 Light Pollution Suppression Filter
Altair Astro Hypercam 26C Camera
Ioptron CEM40G equatorial mount

[Jasonb]

Wow! Love this, I was about to say thanks for supplying us with a diagram showing them, but where's the photo? Excellent result...

[tomato]

Great image, may I suggest posting the un-annotated image so we can view the galaxies without the text intruding.

[Paul M]

That's a wonderful family photo.

I really like the framing and the "natural" processing. A pleasure to peruse!

[Gary Clayton]

12 hours ago, tomato said:

Great image, may I suggest posting the un-annotated image so we can view the galaxies without the text intruding.

Thank you for the kind comments, un-annotated image as requested