M101, The Pinwheel Galaxy, 3 May 2013 (David Dearden)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: M 101 · NGC 5451 · NGC 5455 · NGC 5457 · NGC 5461

M101, The Pinwheel Galaxy, 3 May 2013, David Dearden

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M101, The Pinwheel Galaxy, 3 May 2013

I wasn't planning to do M101 tonight, but when my other target finished the sky looked good so here I am. A fairly easy find with the Telrad, I can see M101 at 1.5 s in the guider. All my difficulty getting it in the imager had to do with the fact that the finder and imager are not too well aligned tonight. Chiller is running at 1.5 A 6.0 V, 1.5 °C currently. I'm going to bed and will just let this run and see how it turns out in the morning. A big chunk of subs were obscured by clouds, but the tracking stayed on through them. This is dramatically better than I was able to get last year.

Date: 3 May 2013

Subject: M101, The Pinwheel Galaxy

Scope: AT8IN + HPS Coma Corrector

Filter: None

Mount: CG-5 (Synta motors)

Guiding: 9x50 Finder/Guider + DSI Ic + PHD 1.14.2

Camera: DSI IIc (chiller at ~1.5 A, T = 1.5 °C)

Acquisition: Nebulosity 3.1.5, no dither

Exposure: 21x300 s

Stacking: Neb 3, bad pixel map, bias included, normalize first, trans+rot align, 1.5 SD stack.

Processing: StarTools 1.3 Crop; Wipe:Color & Brightness; Develop 95.70%; HDR:Reveal core; Sharpen; Deconvolute: 3.0 pix; Track; Color:Bottom 2.5, Top Full, Sat 650%; Magic:Shrink 1; Life:Moderate. CS6+Astronomy Tools increase star color; layer mask deep space & space noise reduction; layer mask unsharp mask on dust lanes; less crunchy more fuzzy; make stars smaller; AstroFrame.

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