Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Boötes (Boo)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5474  ·  NGC 5485
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FIGHTING MOON / BACKYARD LIGHT POLLUTION, Ed Defesche
FIGHTING MOON / BACKYARD LIGHT POLLUTION
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FIGHTING MOON / BACKYARD LIGHT POLLUTION

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
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FIGHTING MOON / BACKYARD LIGHT POLLUTION, Ed Defesche
FIGHTING MOON / BACKYARD LIGHT POLLUTION
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FIGHTING MOON / BACKYARD LIGHT POLLUTION

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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As I'm living in a B5 zone and having strong backyard-lights, triggered by cats etc, I did a test capturing M101 last night for 80min during full moon just to see if I was able to get an acceptable result despite the extreme conditions.

This is the result.
Left the stack with terrible gradients caused by the full moon and strong backyardlights, right the processed image.

I could have extracted a synthetic lum for better details but I didn't because I only wanted to see if I could handle these bad  conditions for future cases.

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FIGHTING MOON / BACKYARD LIGHT POLLUTION, Ed Defesche