Wallpaper author:
Walter Borghini
25 Jun 2025
"Cigar Galaxy"
The Cigar Galaxy is an active galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, located about 12 million light years away, it is an excellent example of a starburst galaxy. Processing done with PixInsight, GraXpert, PaintShop.
Dataset from which the image was processed
M82
20 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Galaxy
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI Proline PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 148.9685 Dec 69.6797
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Northern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................United States of America
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................16 Dec 2021 - 26 Jan 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 1800 | 9h | 18 |
| Red | 800 | 4h | 18 |
| Blue | 847 | 4h | 17 |
| Green | 847 | 4h | 17 |
| Halpha | 1271 | 6h | 17 |