Amateur images of M106 -

image of M106

Jason Ware‘s picture of M106.

It was done with a 16″ Meade SCT on Kodak Tech Pan (hypered)

and scanned from an 8×10. The exposure time is 90 minutes.

The photo was done using the telescope in AlT/AZ mode

with the optional field de-rotator. It was done prime

focus at f10 (4000mm focal length!!!!) and guided with

a SBIG ST-4.

Taken by amateurs of the Sternfreunde Breisgau e.V. at the

Schauinslandsternwarte with their new CCD camera on a Celestron 11.

from the CCD image collection of the

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This image of M106 was posted to usenet by Tom Davis.

It is a Fastar 8 image with the dark frame. The 2 minute exposure was done

at F/1.95 with a Starlite Xpress MX5-16 Camera.