Bodes and Cigar Galaxies and friends plus the Angel and some IFN

[Laurin Dave]

Here are three images of old favourites M81 M82 and surrounding area at different scales put together out of data collected over the last 5 years from Esprit150SX46LRGBHa (20hrs), Esprit100ASI1600 RGB and Ha (20hrs), GT71QHY600 Lum (6hrs), GT71ASI2600mc RGB (6hrs) Samyang135ASI2600mc RGB (13hrs) and Askar200QHY600 Lum (12hrs)  all from my Bortle4/5 backyard observatory.  Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.

Thanks for looking 

Dave

[tomato]

Wonderful trio of images, each very impressive in it's own right. They would be great material for one of those "zooming through the Universe" type of animations.

[callisto]

Wow... the third one is stunning 😮

[ONIKKINEN]

Great images, the third one is especially impressive. Seems like there isn't really any background empty space in this region, just dust all around.

[Mark at Beaufort]

Great images. It is wonderful to see 3 images covering a vast distance.

[WolfieGlos]

What a great set of images Dave, great detail up close and widefield. Well worth the effort over the years.

[Laurin Dave]

17 hours ago, tomato said:

Wonderful trio of images, each very impressive in it's own right. They would be great material for one of those "zooming through the Universe" type of animations.

Thanks Steve...   gret aidea... if only I knew how !

17 hours ago, callisto said:

Wow... the third one is stunning 😮

Thanks Callisto

 

16 hours ago, Mark at Beaufort said:

Great images. It is wonderful to see 3 images covering a vast distance.

Thanks Mark

 

16 hours ago, ONIKKINEN said:

Great images, the third one is especially impressive. Seems like there isn't really any background empty space in this region, just dust all around.

Thank you 

9 hours ago, WolfieGlos said:

What a great set of images Dave, great detail up close and widefield. Well worth the effort over the years.

Thanks..   I think I can pout this to bed for a while now!

[gorann]

They are all great images Dave! I assume you know that the third one contains The Volcano Nebula, which is Nr 3 in the Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Integrated Flux Nebulae (I once imaged it with a RASA https://www.astrobin.com/bftjgc/E/)

[Laurin Dave]

9 minutes ago, gorann said:

They are all great images Dave! I assume you know that the third one contains The Volcano Nebula, which is Nr 3 in the Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Integrated Flux Nebulae (I once imaged it with a RASA https://www.astrobin.com/bftjgc/E/)

Thanks Goran...   hmm  I 'll need to check when back from our little trip away..  it seems I may have mislabled it..

Dave

[Sunshine]

Sublime images!

[josefk]

Brilliant for appreciating the “local” context there. For a visual observer these are very very illuminating.