M106 Collaboration (Dan Vranic)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: HD106420 · HD106556 · HD107275 · M 106 · NGC 4217 · NGC 4220 · NGC 4226 · NGC 4231 · NGC 4232 · NGC 4248 · NGC 4258

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M106 and Friends M106 is a beautiful spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici, approximately 23.5 million light years away from Earth. It is known for its active galactic nucleus, which emits strong radio waves and X-rays, and is thought to contain a supermassive black hole at its center. M106 also features prominent dust lanes and bright regions of star formation, which give it a striking appearance. Its diameter spans about 110,000 light years, making it slightly larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. This image also holds the title of being the DEEPEST image I have ever taken, with multiple galaxies beyond 3.7Bn LY clearly defined, and a Quasar that is 12 Billion Light Years away… That objects photon’s left for my camera sensor only a billion and half years after the Big Bang. Wild. This image provided me with a completely new and thrilling capture experience. Initially, I was able to capture some high-quality black and white luminance data on a moonless night in Indiana. Unfortunately, the weather took a turn for the worse, and I realized that it would be at least another month before I could collect the color information on these galaxies, given some recent mechanical issues. Thankfully, my new friend at @OnlineAstro_observer stepped in and gathered a stunning 5 hours of color data last night from his near identical setup in Slovenia 🇸🇮 , making the process much smoother and easier for me. I likely would have never finished this project otherwise. Can’t recommend them enough for some real high quality data. Enjoy!

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
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Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
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Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
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Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

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Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
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Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7395802
PixInsight job	W6H3SW0KLMJMMIZTZ5SAVO3Z9JXADGLE
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h16m47s.19
RA (top/left)	12h21m02s.26
RA (top/right)	12h13m19s.19
RA (bottom/right)	12h12m37s.43
RA (bottom/left)	12h20m09s.53

Dec (center)	+47°21′07″.3
Dec (top/left)	+47°55′33″.9
Dec (top/right)	+48°03′40″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+46°46′08″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+46°38′01″.10

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