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M106

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M106

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I didn't know about this object until the day before I photographed it, while looking for something to image. I was glad to get even this much detail from this scope, but I think above average transparency and good seeing conditions helped with that. Several additional small galaxies can been seen surrounding M106 in this cropped image, and lots more were visible in the full-frame, uncropped image.

M106 is a type-2 Seyfert galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, about 25 million light-years from Earth.

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M106, mhtandy