Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034
M 81 (Bode's Galaxy) and M 82 (Cigar Galaxy) in RGB, Robert H. Kutner
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M 81 (Bode's Galaxy) and M 82 (Cigar Galaxy) in RGB

M 81 (Bode's Galaxy) and M 82 (Cigar Galaxy) in RGB, Robert H. Kutner
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M 81 (Bode's Galaxy) and M 82 (Cigar Galaxy) in RGB

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Blink / Subframe Select, Calibrated (60 Dark, 60 Flat, 100 Bias), Debayered, Star Aligned all images with PixInsight. Used the Normalized Scale Gradient for integration.  

Channel Extract - Lin Fit, DBE, TGVd, MLT, Mask Stretched, EZSoftStretch, HDR, LHT, MMT, and EZStar Reduction.

Image was Curves modified w/ & w/o masks. Moved to Photoshop to further adjust saturation, contrast, and additional noise reduction.  Returned to PI to Resample and Annotation.

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M 81 (Bode's Galaxy) and M 82 (Cigar Galaxy) in RGB, Robert H. Kutner

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