What a lovely field this is and a nice one to illustrate the depth of the universe. Top left M97 a planetary nebula in our own galaxy a star in its final death throes ca 15 000 light years away - a similar fate awaits our own star the sun in the distant future. Bottom right the galaxy M108 an island of countless millions of stars ca 35 million light years from earth. Numerous other even more remote galaxies are also visible. Around M97 is a very faint and rarely captured outer shell of ionised gas.

Exposure Details

8 hours of luminescence
4 hours each of red, green and blue

all in 15 minute sub exposures

6 hours of OIII in 30 minute subs

Data acquired with a flt110 refractor at F5.2 on a AP900 gto3 mount. This is also my first OAG guided image using my new starlight xpress filter wheel, off axis guider and lodestar guide camera. Data was acquired and callibrated in MaximDL and processed in PixInsight and Adobe Photoshop PS3E