I had a full image with this and M81, but M81 was still noisy due to my Bortle 9 skies, so this I settled for an M82-only image due to its surface brightness.

Even with the widefield setup, the detail is pretty nice and I really like this result.

Equipment: AT80ED, EQM-35 pro, ATR533M cooled mono camera, Touptek 1.25" RGB filters + filter wheel, zwo asi120mm mini with touptek OAG

2-minute subs at gain 101 For R and G, 1 minute subs for L. Total integration time: ~16 hours

2 hours lum (I had many more but clouds rolled in unfortunately). I did 7 hours on both Red and Green, I mixed them to make a false blue channel to avoid the star bloating I get with the blue.

Processing: Stacking was done in both DSS and Siril depending on what I was doing, processing in siril (RGB compositing, background extraction, color calibration).

Zero denoising! One of the few times I could do that.

by InvestigatorOdd4082

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