M81 (Jacob Nowatzke)

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

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First visit to a truly spectacular target; I'd never visited the more "essential" Messier objects, but once I saw a 10sec Lum sub, I figured why not see what this scope is capable of in my hands. Now, after nearly reaching a more-appropriate n=30 or 40 per channel, I'm left feeling like I should move a frame's worth northward and make a 2x1 mosaic to get the inseparable M82 within the field.

All data collected with EKOS while running INDI on a remote RPi4. Processing only with APP- light crop, background calibration, a smidgeon of saturation. Less saturation needed tells me I must have done something more right, or this target is particularly gorgeous per se. No star color calibration necessary, apparently. The core is a bit blown out- I can't decide if I should've used 150sec for the L channel, or maybe instead dropped luminance to 0 Gain. Some data- about 90min worth- was sadly lost due to corruption, but the reminder to regularly back up my local FITS repository is a welcome one. To be continued.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	7095011
PixInsight job	UH5VE17UFQXMS5Z9VNN10JN31ARQM6TO
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	09h55m40s.422
RA (top/left)	10h00m35s.561
RA (top/right)	09h50m29s.243
RA (bottom/right)	09h50m54s.677
RA (bottom/left)	10h00m42s.335

Dec (center)	+69°03′14″.80
Dec (top/left)	+69°24′10″.60
Dec (top/right)	+69°22′14″.98
Dec (bottom/right)	+68°41′47″.59
Dec (bottom/left)	+68°43′42″.100

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