Galaxies
Messier 81 and Holmberg IX in Ursa Major

This spiral galaxy is 12 million lightyears distant and approx 90,000 lightyears across. The Magellanic-type satellite galaxy Holmberg IX can just be seen to the left of M81

ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera through a Teleskop-Service 200mm Ritchey-Chretien telescope.
33 x 5 minute exposures (total 2.75 hours) over the evenings of 14th and 15th February 2019, with the camera at Gain 250 and -15C

Date: 15/02/2019

Messier 81 and Holmberg IX in Ursa Major

This spiral galaxy is 12 million lightyears distant and approx 90,000 lightyears across. The Magellanic-type satellite galaxy Holmberg IX can just be seen to the left of M81

ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera through a Teleskop-Service 200mm Ritchey-Chretien telescope.
33 x 5 minute exposures (total 2.75 hours) over the evenings of 14th and 15th February 2019, with the camera at Gain 250 and -15C

Date: 15/02/2019