Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3034
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The Cigar Galaxy, Sendhil Chinnasamy
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The Cigar Galaxy

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The Cigar Galaxy, Sendhil Chinnasamy
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The Cigar Galaxy

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This was on my list of galaxy targets and it is available to shoot almost all night this time. While guiding around  the pole is iffy, I just piled on as much data as I could. I should have tripled the RGB data, but this will do for now. 

Hope you like this result. Clear skies!

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The Cigar Galaxy, Sendhil Chinnasamy