New Edition
- Telescope: William Optics FLT 110 with F/T focuser 3025 & Starizona usb motor focus
- Mount: Skywatcher ΗEQ5 pro
- Chip: Atik 314L+ at -5c
- Guiding: TS finder 8x50 with Meade DSI I pro
- Filter wheel: Starlight Xpress usb 7x1.25
- Location: Agios Panteleimonas 30/05/2014
- Luminance: 39x240sec 1x1bin and 7x300sec 1x1bin
- Red: 8x240sec 1x1bin and 7x300sec 1x1 bin
- Green: 8x240sec 1x1bin and 7x300sec 1x1 bin
- Blue: 8x240sec 1x1bin and 6x300sec 1x1 bin
- Total:
- Programs I have used-
- Maxim DL ,Photoshop CS5, The Sky6 ,Focusmax
Old Image
- Telescope: William Optics FLT 110 with F/T focuser 3025 & Starizona usb motor focus
- Mount: Skywatcher ΗEQ5 pro
- Chip: Atik 314L+ at -10c
- Guiding: TS finder 8x50 with Meade DSI I pro
- Filter wheel: Starlight Xpress usb 7x1.25
- Location: Agios Panteleimonas
- Luminance: 7x300sec 1x1bin
- Red: 7x300sec 1x1bin
- Green: 7x300sec 1x1bin
- Blue: 6x300sec 1x1bin
- Total: 135 min
- Programs I have used-
- Maxim DL ,Photoshop CS5, The Sky6 ,Focusmax
Information about M 106
Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth. It is also a Seyfert II galaxy, which means that due to x-rays and unusual emission lines detected, it is suspected that part of the galaxy is falling into a supermassive black hole in the center.[7] NGC 4217 is a possible companion galaxy of Messier 106
M106 has a water vapor megamaser (the equivalent of a laser operating in microwave instead of light and on a galactic scale) that is seen by the 22-GHz line of ortho-H2O that evidences dense and warm molecular gas. Water masers are useful to observe nuclear accretion disks in active galaxies. The water masers in M106 enabled the first case of a direct measurement of the distance to a galaxy and thereby providing an independent anchor for the cosmic distance ladder.[8][9] M 106 has a slightly warped, thin, almost edge-on Keplerian disc which is on a subparsec scale. It surrounds a central area with mass 4 × 107M⊙.
It's one of the largest and brightest nearby galaxies, similar in size and luminosity to the Andromeda Galaxy