M106
M106 is a large spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in July 1781 and described as a nebula. It was rediscovered by William Herschel on March 9, 1788. Herschel had a much better telescope than Méchain and was therefore able to observe more detail. He noted that it was an object with a clear core and many structures. Today, the galaxy is included under the number M106 in the Messier catalog. A captioned version is also attached to the image, showing a number of other distant objects captured even with a small telescope. Some reach a brightness of up to 17 mag.
This is another catch from 2015, processed with more delay. I was hoping to add more exposures, but it didn't work out. The photography took place under increased cloud cover, so some details are lost a little. In addition, the calibration was not ideal and the resulting image showed vertical stripes, which I removed with PixInsight.
