M101 from 2020 (MontanaFrank)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: HD122007 · HD122149 · HD122471 · HD122865 · HD238331 · M 101 · NGC 5447 · NGC 5449 · NGC 5450 · NGC 5451 · NGC 5453 · NGC 5455 · NGC 5457 · NGC 5461 · NGC 5462 · NGC 5471 · NGC 5473 · NGC 5474 · NGC 5477 · NGC 5484 · NGC 5485 · NGC 5486 · Pinwheel galaxy

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over 50 subs taken, most of them were bad. This was before I cleaned and re-greased the EQ6-R Pro, and got better at guiding. I kept taking out subs until I had something that was not trash, then used the new tools to clean it up. BlurX works fantastic, but only to a point, after which streaked stars look way wrong. Sadly this is only 8 subs once I was done. I really, want to get 3-4 hours of data on this target when I get the chance. If I could have doubled the nuber of usable subs, I could have removed the satellite trails. As it is, I tried to de-emphasize them, but they are still there.

Working through all this old data is helping me get better at processing and working on a viable workflow for when I get better at data collections. The weather and work up here have conspired to limit my astronomy time to a few weekends a season, most of those I spend doing visual work with the imaging running automated on the side.

I still have a few more of these older data sets that I hope to process into something worth documenting. It will be very interesting to come back to these images next year and compare what I was able to do and how far I advance my skills.

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Unknown

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Astrometry.net job	8949055
PixInsight job	4ETE5J90VREPCMWBDMY7CT2DF6BLE6GQ
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	14h03m21s.85
RA (top/left)	14h04m42s.76
RA (top/right)	13h53m55s.99
RA (bottom/right)	14h02m04s.91
RA (bottom/left)	14h12m57s.23

Dec (center)	+54°20′01″.7
Dec (top/left)	+55°45′21″.6
Dec (top/right)	+53°56′05″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+52°54′32″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+54°41′04″.8

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