The bright (mag. 8.4) spiral galaxy M106 is perhaps about 21 to 25 million
light years distant. It is receding at 537 km/sec.

Image
is taken with Celestron Pixcel 237 CCD Camera through a C9,25 at f:3,3. 36x25
second exposure are processed in CCDSoft v5, AIP for Win and Photoshop.
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