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M108 & The Owl, Andrew Burwell
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M108 & The Owl

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M108 & The Owl

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When I went to frame this up, it at first glance appears largely uninteresting. There don't appear to be any significant other objects to frame with the primary two as I panned around the sky map. But I was pleasantly surprised after the first night of data how many small galaxies there are. So I added another night of imaging to this, and wow, there must be hundreds and hundreds of small galaxies, with quite a few having some resolvable detail. Even with the overlay, which looks quite busy, it doesn't do the total number of galaxies here justice. Overall, it was quite hard to process as I struggled to balance too much detail vs. background noise which can be a problem with the extreme stretching I apply to my images using GHS.

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M108 & The Owl, Andrew Burwell