M97 - The Owl Nebula
M97 is a planetary nebula located in a constellation Ursa Major. It came to be known as the Owl Nebula because of the two circular markings look like the eyes of an owl. It consists of a shell of expanding gas around an aged star. The area of M97 is 12,000 light years distant.
It is an LRGB composite (Baader filters) CCD image taken with a Takahashi Epsilon-180 astrograph using an SBIG ST-8300M CCD (-15 C). Takahashi Epsilon180 astrograph (f/2.8); SBIG ST-8300M (Luminance 300"x5 (1x1 binned) and RGB 300"x3 (2x2 binned)); Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2M; CCDSoft, MaxIm DL5 and Photoshop CS4, Kent, OH, March 21, 2012
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