M81/82 – Phone (S24 Ultra) – 21 hours – bortle 9

Hardware: S24 Ultra 50MP 5× optical zoom, Didyclips, MSM Nomad.

Acquisition: ~21 hours 15 minutes @ iso 800 30s across 6 nights. ~50-70 darks included for each night.

Stacking: Batch stack size ~50-60 per night, master stack per day, then master stack across days. All done in Siril.

Post-Processing: GraXpert (Gradient removal, noise reduction), Siril (Green noise reduction), photoshop (curves, star mask for star sharpen and saturation, desaturate background), gimp (overlay flare in one of my subs)

Wish I have a darker sky