It as a Cool and clear night about 35 degrees. 1/4 moon on the way down. Coyotes howling in the background and the old horse intermittently scraching her butt up against my astro-shed (geeese..give me a break)
4 hours 30min fo 6 minutes subs taken Scope: Celestron 1100 On CGE Mount with .63 focal reducer
Guiding with PhD Meade 80mm ED
HUTECH MODIFIED CANON XTi
(Canon Rebel XTi (400DH) spectrum enhanced camera with built-in astronomical UV/IR blocking filter (Type Ib
Calibrated,Stacked DeepSky Stacker Final processing with PS CS3

M82 is the 82nd object in Charles Messier's 1784 catalogue of faint nebulae. It is located approximately 3.3 Mpc the Earth and is classified as an irregular galaxy. The filamentary features extending perpendicular to the galaxy are due to ionized hydrogen gas emitting its characteristic red light (the so-called "H alpha" line) at a wavelength of 6563 Angstroms. The filaments extend for over 3000 pc in each direction from the center of the galaxy.