The pair of contrasting galaxies, the face-on spiral M77 and egd-on spiral NGC 1055 (above) in Cetus. Shot from home November 21, 2016 with the Explore Scientific FCD 102mm apo refractor at f/7 with a stack of 5 x 6-minute exposures at ISO 1600 with the Canon 5D MkII. Some frost at the end. The bright star is Delta Ceti. Russell Croman’s Gradient Xterminator applied to even out the background.
Taken April 19/20, 2006 with Astro-Physics 4-inch Traveler apo refractor at f/6 with 6x7 field flattener in place as well. Canon 20Da camera at ISO400 and stack of 4 x 16 minute exposures, on mild spring night. Some slight field rotation between frames due to misalignment. Frames de-rotated in Photoshop. Each galaxy masked and punched up a bit mroe with Curves and Selective Color.
Messier 81 (the spiral galaxy below) and M82 (the irregular galaxy on top) in Ursa Major. M81 is Bode’s Galaxy, while M82 is the Cigar Galaxy. The galaxy at bottom left is NGC 3077 This is a stack of 10 x 10-minute exposures with the Canon EOS Ra camera at ISO 800 through the Astro-Physics 130mm apo refractor at f/6 with the 6x7 field flattener lens. Taken April 24/25, 2020. North is up in this view.
