Thursday, April 25, 2024

M81--Bode's Galaxy

 More testing of the Seestar last night. This is an image of M81, Bode's Galaxy. It's the result of a 64-minute integration. The image is heavily cropped with noise reduction and color tweaks. Bode's galaxy is a spiral and is about 12 million light years from our solar system. The galaxy has a central black hole of about 70 million solar masses.


Here’s a version with a little more processing:





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