M51 – The Whirlpool Galaxy – [Reedit]

Sorry if this is considered spam – but reedited the photo from the other day and it came out so much better I had to share!

All the same equipment/etc as last time, just found a great tutorial by seti-astro on editing in PI – Here

M51 taken over the past half month from my backyard! Bortle 4.5 – 5.0

Celestron 8SE w/ .68 Reducer on an EQ6R-Pro – ZWO ASI2600MM – ZWO LRGB Filters

Lum – 180s x 15 Hr.

R – 180s x 5 Hr.

G – 180s x 5 Hr.

B – 180s x 5 Hr.

20 Darks @ 180s

10 Flats/filter

Stacked, edited, and cropped in PI – Gradient Correction, Star Align, RGB Combine, Dynamic Crop, BlurX, NoiseX, StarX, curves stretch, Background Neutralization, Stat stretch – LRGB combine – curves stretch touch ups – star stretch – recombine RGB Stars