Camera: Q453HR CCD Labs- One Shot Color Camera 

Total Exposure: 4.5 hours 18 x 15 min. unbinned

February 2011: Chico, California, USA 

Comments: The Cigar Galaxy or M82 is the prototype nearby starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The starburst galaxy is five times as bright as the whole Milky Way and one hundred times as bright as our galaxy's center .