M81 & M82 - Bodes and Cigar Galaxy in LRGB (Deepan Vishal)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Bode's Galaxy · Cigar Galaxy · HD85161 · HD85458 · M 81 · M 82 · NGC 3031 · NGC 3034

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M81 & M82 - Bodes and Cigar Galaxy in LRGB

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M81 & M82 - Bodes and Cigar Galaxy in LRGB

Captured a bit of M81/MM82's IFN from my backyard.
13 hours of LRGB data. Ha data to be added in future.
Would love to add more data to it, but due to limited imaging time, I am moving on to imaging other targets.

Processed in Pixinsight -
WBPP ->
1. Starless Luminance Channel ->
ABE -> BlurXTerminator -> NoiseXterminator -> StarXterminator -> HistogramTransformation(Starless)
2. Starless RGB Channel Processing ->
ABE -> Linear Fit -> Channel Combination -> RepairedHSV separation -> Image Solver and SPCC -> StarXterminator
3. Starless LRGB ->
LRGBCombination -> Curves touch up -> Stretch adjustment -> Masks for correcting the starburst in M82 and Core in M81 - > NoiseXterminator
4. Stars Processing ->
Masked Stretch Luminance & RGB Channel -> LRGBCombination -> Unsharp/Decon/Curves touch up - StarXterminator -> Star image
5. Stars + Starless Image - PixelMath

Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions.

Thanks,
Deepan

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7383124
PixInsight job	5R0IHANM17NM79P7YCNEXC8LNI61ESQ4
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	09h56m14s.940
RA (top/left)	09h59m24s.118
RA (top/right)	10h00m24s.163
RA (bottom/right)	09h52m54s.750
RA (bottom/left)	09h52m18s.942

Dec (center)	+69°19′24″.79
Dec (top/left)	+68°41′15″.73
Dec (top/right)	+69°55′05″.74
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°57′20″.69
Dec (bottom/left)	+68°43′22″.69

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