M82 - deep sky lucky imaging experiment - 15min mono (Pam Whitfield)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Cigar Galaxy · M 82 · NGC 3034

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M82 - deep sky lucky imaging experiment - 15min mono

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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M82 - deep sky lucky imaging experiment - 15min mono

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Clouds cleared too late to take data on my long-term target so I went back to some experimenting with deep-space lucky imaging using the ASI178MM I normally use for solar work. Putting it on my ES102CF is still a novelty so some things still to work out there.
I overcooked the dithering on this second attempt (1st one was underdone!) - I don't have to deal with CMOS pattern noise with my QHY9 so that's a trial and error still in progress. That left some egg-shaped stars but hey-ho.
I've started playing with the AstroDenoisePyGUI program developed for the Astrobiscuit BAT project (https://www.astrobiscuit.com/the-big-amateur-telescope) that has been trained specifically for astro noise reduction/removal and it works a treat both on this and my CCD data.
This image was made up of the best 300 out of 1000 3 second subs with not spectacular seeing. It had a quick processing in PI to improve the stars and sharpen it up a touch.

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RA (center)	09h55m49s.532
RA (top/left)	09h54m11s.700
RA (top/right)	09h54m28s.300
RA (bottom/right)	09h57m25s.727
RA (bottom/left)	09h57m12s.391

Dec (center)	+69°40′34″.43
Dec (top/left)	+69°51′28″.87
Dec (top/right)	+69°28′43″.87
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°29′36″.57
Dec (bottom/left)	+69°52′23″.35

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