M106 and the Canes II Group

Image Title: M 106

Copyright: Team ARO Bozon-Gangloff

Date image was taken: May 05, 2025

Location: South Portugal

Data Acquisition Method: Personal Telescope Setup

Description and Details: Observable in "the Hunting Dogs" constellation, M106 is located at a distance of around 23 million light-years, and is the dominant galaxy in a small local group of galaxies (Canes II), some members of which can be seen in the image shown.
This spiral galaxy is roughly equivalent in size to our neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, with a diameter of around 130,000 light-years (slightly larger than our own Milky Way).
Photo taken in South Portugal, Remote France. 46 hours of exposure in LHaRHaVB , by Team ARO
Set up Astrosib RC 400 on DDM85 mount
Camera Moravian C4 CMOS 36x36
Pixinsight-Photoshop processing

Name: Francis Bozon

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