Had 2 strait clear cool nights I was able to get 6.5 hours of data. The 1st night was horrible from the scope in the observatory not being used for 5 month. It always seems to do like that?
M106 is the large galaxy upper left, its a barred spiral galaxy located in constellation Canes Venatici and is located 22, 25 million lightyears away from Earth.
The smaller Galaxy mid right of the image is NGC 4217 a edge on spiral galaxy, it is located 60 million lightyears away.
Taken with a 16 year old Unmodified Canon 60d through an Orion 8” newtonian astrograph with coma correcter, all on a 11 year old Celestron AVX mount.
Exposure:
130x3minutes 6.5 hours, 55 dark frames ISO-1250, 40 flats, 50 Bias
Processing:
Pixlinsight: batch weighted stacking, Background ext, astro solving, SPCC, noisexterminator, blur terminator, histogram stretch, SCNR, added mask curves saturations,
Photoshop: selective color adjustments, color balance highlights, highlight and shadows adjustments, levels
Astrobin link: [https://app.astrobin.com/u/jb-astro](https://app.astrobin.com/u/jb-astro)
Bortle skies 3
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Had 2 strait clear cool nights I was able to get 6.5 hours of data. The 1st night was horrible from the scope in the observatory not being used for 5 month. It always seems to do like that?
M106 is the large galaxy upper left, its a barred spiral galaxy located in constellation Canes Venatici and is located 22, 25 million lightyears away from Earth.
The smaller Galaxy mid right of the image is NGC 4217 a edge on spiral galaxy, it is located 60 million lightyears away.
Taken with a 16 year old Unmodified Canon 60d through an Orion 8” newtonian astrograph with coma correcter, all on a 11 year old Celestron AVX mount.
Exposure:
130x3minutes 6.5 hours, 55 dark frames ISO-1250, 40 flats, 50 Bias
Processing:
Pixlinsight: batch weighted stacking, Background ext, astro solving, SPCC, noisexterminator, blur terminator, histogram stretch, SCNR, added mask curves saturations,
Photoshop: selective color adjustments, color balance highlights, highlight and shadows adjustments, levels
Astrobin link: [https://app.astrobin.com/u/jb-astro](https://app.astrobin.com/u/jb-astro)
Bortle skies 3
it looks sooo gorgeous
Good work!