Galaxies

M108 Galaxy in Ursa Major, TEC140

Spiral Galaxy M108 in Ursa Major with TEC140 and Atik 460

M108 is a galaxy about 45 million light years away in the constellation of Ursa Major.  It is sometimes called the surfboard galaxy because of its resemblance to a surfboard.  Note the huge number of tiny, distant galaxies in the background.  These are hundreds and in some cases up to two billion light years away from us.

Technical Information

I imaged M108 from my backyard observatory in Nottingham, UK on 4-5 April 2021 (two imaging sessions) when M108 was almost directly overhead.  Conditions were very cold and frosty with good seeing and transparency. I used my TEC140 refractor and Atik 460 CCD camera with Astrodon E series Gen LRGB filters (1.25″).  There is almost 9.5 hours of data in this image consisting of:

Lum > 42 x 300s; Red > 24 x 300s; Green > 24x300s; Blue 24 x 300s

Everything was binned 1×1.  

Image data was captured using Sequence Generator Pro software and the equipment was was guided using OAG on my MESU 200 mount.  Processed with PixInsight.

I hope you like it!

M108 with TEC 140 Refractor
M108 in Ursa Major with TEC140

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M108 Annotated
Annotated Version
M108 FindingChart
Finder chart

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