Camera: FLI CM-10 with CFW 1-8

Mount: Losmandy G-11 with Gemini

Scope: Astro Systemme Austria N8 Astrograph

Colors: L:R:G:B

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Post-Production: MaxIm DL and Photoshop CS3

M106 is a spectacular spiral galaxy approximately 30,000 light years across, located roughly 21 million light years away from our own Milky Way galaxy. It is located in the sky near the constellation of Canes Venatici, near the Big Dipper (Ursa Major). The galaxy has clusters of youthful blue stars in its spiral arms, and has an extremely bright core. It is a Seyfert class galaxy, and is belived to have a massive black hole at the center.