A galaxy far far away....

[Neil I]

Hi guys

Thanks to our wonderful weather it's been ages since I've used the scope so I thought I'd trawl through some old images and maybe reprocess some of data from earlier in the year. I found this single sub taken last March but have no idea which galaxy this is. There seems to be loads of faint fuzzies in there as well. I'd like to try this target next year if I only knew what/where it was

Anyone recognise it?

Cheers

Neil

[Catanonia]

M81 and M82 commonly known as the Bodes Galaxies

Wow, would never have known that a few months ago

[moocher]

No its M100......my favorite galaxy. http://www.concentric.net/~Richmann/m100.htm

Alan:)

[Catanonia]

LOL, and i thought i was getting somewhere

[Vega]

I can see why that companion galaxy was mistaken for M82. Quite a resemblence. Was this taken through the 200mm Neil?

Matt

[Neil I]

M100 Excellent, thanks guys.

Will hopefully make a good widefield image with my scope.

Matt

Yes, this was taken with the 200 at f4.5. This was the only sub I seemed to have taken of this, so I'm guessing the clouds must have rolled in that night

Cheers

Neil

[TheThing]

That's pretty darn good considering that the 'satellite' galaxy is much more smudgy and elongated in the sub above. Good call Moocher, sir! I'd have said M81/M82 as well.

[Taff]

Nice capture Neil' of the two galaxies.Mark

[mdstuart]

Lovely picture. The side on galaxy is NGC4312. The are both on my to do list. I so cannot wait for Spring to have a go at these.

Mark

[mdstuart]

Sorry another go at these. I have just found my notes. M100 was visible in my old TAL 110mm and is visible as a small smudge in my current 10 inch dob.

NGC 4312 was visible in the ten inch scope on 26/3/09 as a very faint streak. This would support the side on view!

Mark