Description: Was wanting to correct a strong red cast in the original upload. Oddly, for some reason PI photometric color calibration could not solve this field, even though plate solving and rendering worked great. So I winged it. But given a bit of time to catch up on this, here is what I expect to be the real final version.
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In being self-critical with some of my recent galaxy images, I have embarked on some revisions. For this one, I have decided that the previous image was probably overly stretched and over contrast enhanced to the extent that M 106's outer disk is rather misrepresented as more dense and detailed than it is relative to the inner region. In doing so, the finer detail within that inner disk was lost to view. My guide was simply my unstretched subs and stack along with other's images. So I am presenting a heavily reprocessed image as the final. For this, I back way out and redid the stacking, taking advantage of doing a false-luminance stack to improve resolution. But in the end, with a more subtle processing hand, I think that my noise reduction also benefitted. This revision does not go as deep as the original, but seeing all the tiny red fuzzies that are there in the original stack kind of misses the point. And I cannot stand the artifacts generated otherwise. There are still a few point-like artifacts in M 106 that were generated with deconvolution, but cannot really be seen unless in full mag view. So don't do that!
In the end, not nearly as dramatic, but then probably more true to M 106. And I much prefer the new 4217 as well as the other smaller galaxies. I believe that I can see more detail in there.
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