M82 and SN 2014J

Hello all,

Here's my take on the supernova in M82. I decided to forego taking a deep image and captured and processed just one night's worth of data. I cheated a bit by darkening the background a little more extremely than I normally do to hide the warts.

http://www.skiesbyafrica.com/Galaxies/M82.html

Please click on the image to see a larger view, or click here directly:

http://www.skiesbyafrica.com/Galaxies/Images/M82/M82SN2014.jpg

Enjoy,
Eric

Attached Image:

Very cool, actually a lot of detain in the Ha starburst region.

Beautiful 82 - love all that ruptured red hydrogen splaying out from the core