Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  HD85161  ·  HD85458  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034
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M81 & M82 - full frame FOV - lots of galaxies, as well as the usual close crop, Leela.Astro.Imaging
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M81 & M82 - full frame FOV - lots of galaxies, as well as the usual close crop

Revision title: Close crop

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M81 & M82 - full frame FOV - lots of galaxies, as well as the usual close crop, Leela.Astro.Imaging
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M81 & M82 - full frame FOV - lots of galaxies, as well as the usual close crop

Revision title: Close crop

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While these two galaxies are normally imaged in a tight FOV, I thought I'd run a full frame FOV across them.  I'm glad I did, b/c it captures a few more galaxies.  Quite how many is not actually shown fully by the astrobin annotation.  Using the Pixinsight PGC annotation database, the number of galaxies is staggering.  Every single label in the second image is a galaxy.  Mind-blowing.

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M81 & M82 - full frame FOV - lots of galaxies, as well as the usual close crop, Leela.Astro.Imaging

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