Date: May 27, 2007

Object: M82 and M81

Description: M81 and M82 are a pair of associated galaxies located in Ursa Major. M81 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies in the night sky with an apperant magnitude of 8. It's companion galaxy M82 is a "peculiar" galaxy of 9th magnitude. Both galaxies are 12 million light-years from Earth.

Photo Credit: Rick Bearce and Brandon ____

Location: City of Rocks State Park, New Mexico

Telescope: 9.25" Schmidt-Cassegrain OTA and a Vixen 102SS ED f6.5

Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT