M106 & Vicinity LRGB Wide FOV - First Light (Ben Koltenbah)

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 & Vicinity LRGB Wide FOV - First Light

This is another target from my first light session with the new Tak FSQ-106EDX4. This is M106 and its vicinity, where I was pleased to find many interesting background galaxies, some not as far away as I expected. As much fun as I'm having processing these wide field shots I am looking forward to coming back to them, particularly the annotated versions, and learning more about these galaxies.

I've been impressed with a number of new M106 images that others have been posting lately and was quite reluctant to post this one as I found it very challenging to adjust the intensity curve such that some core detail is shown along with the fainter outer edges of the galaxy. Finally I came up with this latest rendition, which I'm only mildly pleased with, but mostly just tired of working on it, so here it is. There are some funny mottled colors in the faint outer parts, but I am happy to have a bit more detail in the middle than with my other attempts. The CurvesTransformation I defined in PI is the most curvy or transformation curves that I've ever curved.

I hope you are enjoying these first light images, and as I've said many times before on this Messier Micro-Meander, I am looking forward to getting this scope out again and dwelling longer on a single target.

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