M106

Constellation- Canes Venetici

Right Ascension: 12 : 19.0 (h:m)

Declination: +47 : 18 (deg:m)

Distance: 25000 (kly)

Visual Brightness: 8.4 (mag)

Apparent Dimension: 19x8 (arc min)

Date- March 12, 2004

Telescope/Focal length/Camera- Celestron NexStar11 GPS @ f/10, SBIG ST-8XE NABG @ -20C, autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.00

Integrations- 6 x 600 seconds binned 2x2

Processing- Darks/flats/median combined if CCDSoft Ver. 5.00, DDP and custom filter in Astroart 2.0, levels and curves in Photoshop 5.0

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