M106 - First time with PI ! (Jeffrey Stirman)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 106 · NGC 4217 · NGC 4226 · NGC 4231 · NGC 4232 · NGC 4248 · NGC 4258

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M106 - First time with PI !

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M106 - First time with PI !

I finally bit the bullet and started to learn PI. To get me going in the right direction I had Connor Matherne (@cosmic.speck on Instagram) do a tutorial for me with this data (this is my data). This is my attempt at re-creating what he did. I probably turned many of the dials up to 8 or 9 when they should be 4-5 (haha). But since this was a learning experience I went with it.

I was never happy with the image when processing it fully in PS. This is much better IMO. I'm still not happy with it, but I think much of that is the primary data. I do have nearly 10 hrs on it in RGB using a 183C and 4 hours of Ha using a 183M. But overall the data is just ok. I will be sticking to monochrome in the future and this should help a bit more with the noise that was the main issue.

I was not going to post this here because compared to all the great images out there this is just eh, but I think for me to grow and learn I need to post this here. Instagram hides all the flaws and lets you get away with less than good images.

In any case, I am super excited to get going using Pix and cannot wait to continue to learn and use it on future projects. I'm sure it will be a slow transition, but I'm now headed along that pathway!

I will not enter in all the details for acquisition at this time but a quick summary is:

Acquired sometime a few months ago

SVQ100

Avalon Linear

QHY183M/QHY183C

Orion Skyglow filter for color and Chroma 5nm Ha fiter

RGB ~ 10hrs

Ha ~4hrs

NINA, DSS, PI !

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	4661723
PixInsight job	CB4N5AZBHWBQUO2TGIAEOH97CBJWPE7K
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	12h17m51s.914
RA (top/left)	12h14m05s.719
RA (top/right)	12h21m43s.601
RA (bottom/right)	12h21m41s.845
RA (bottom/left)	12h13m56s.454

Dec (center)	+47°15′01″.63
Dec (top/left)	+46°48′04″.50
Dec (top/right)	+46°49′25″.98
Dec (bottom/right)	+47°41′30″.13
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°40′05″.97

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