M101 - First time in Bortle 4 (Marc Mantha)

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M101 - First time in Bortle 4

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I finally did my first astro expedition. I met went to a dark location just 20 minutes from where I live (where I do my imaging) and the bortle scale drops from 8 to 4! I was also able to test my Jackery 240 and laptop autonomy and after about 3 hours of everything running, the battery was still at 65% capacity, so for the short summernights, this little battery does an excellent job. I was running everything with AC cables of course to optimize power consumption.

What a difference it makes from bortle 8 to 4! This is about 1 h of 3 minutes subs on M101, using only a UV/IR cut filter. For the first time, I did not have to run any gradient removal tool, just a simple background calibration in App. Honestly, I think that to get this amount of details from my front yard, I would need 5 hours of integration using a light pollution filter and a big job a gradient removal.

I'm definitely looking forward to going there again, once the nights become longer again, astro dark is now about 3 hours here.

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RA (center)	14h03m14s.38
RA (top/left)	14h07m52s.43
RA (top/right)	14h09m50s.69
RA (bottom/right)	13h58m18s.52
RA (bottom/left)	13h56m59s.99

Dec (center)	+54°24′06″.5
Dec (top/left)	+53°06′44″.6
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Dec (bottom/right)	+55°40′50″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+53°16′08″.8

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