Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's nebulae  ·  M 81  ·  NGC 3031
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M81 (LRGB), rhedden
M81 (LRGB)
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M81 (LRGB)

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M81 (LRGB)

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This image of M81 was acquired over a 2-month period with generally poor weather, making it a challenge to accrue more than an hour or two of integration time each night. Processing was a lot of work on this one too, but I am happy with the final result. Total luminance was approx. 6 hours; total RGB integration was 9 hours.

In the final revision, I have turned down the color saturation to look make the subject look more natural. In addition, I removed the diffraction spikes, which were added post-processing in the earlier revisions.

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M81 (LRGB), rhedden