Bode's Galaxy and Cigar Galaxy (James R Potts)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Bode's Galaxy · Cigar Galaxy · ES UMa · HD85161 · HD85458 · M 81 · M 82 · NGC 3031 · NGC 3034

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Bode's Galaxy and Cigar Galaxy

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Captured M81 & M82 last night from my driveway as I had pretty nice dark skies as the moon dropped below the horizon. I did a HaRGB template in APP and then added a Luminance layer on top in PS. I captured this eariler in the year with my 81mm and my one shot color camera. Amazing the difference getting a little more aperture with my 127mm and using a mono camera and capture the Ha to really pull in the red nebulas.

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Description: Some slight revisions, a little sharper.

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Title: Reworked Imae

Description: My wife bought me a gift card for a Shutterfly Book, so I have been reworking some older images, that when I posted them I thought they were Great, LOL. Looking back at them I am like, geez this has lots of noise or poor color. It is amazing what just using different tools or just better processing techniques can do to improve an old image. This one certainly looked better in PI and PS, lets see if that transfers to Astrobin.

Ok after reviewing the images on Astrobin, I did not get as much blue in Bode's, but the detail and clarity is much better and the Ha on the Cigar galaxy really improved. The background is cleaner; overall, IMHO this revision is a superior image to the previous one. Let me know what you think.

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RA (center)	09h55m30s.873
RA (top/left)	09h50m39s.271
RA (top/right)	09h51m06s.415
RA (bottom/right)	10h00m06s.822
RA (bottom/left)	10h00m10s.914

Dec (center)	+69°16′37″.72
Dec (top/left)	+69°53′05″.85
Dec (top/right)	+68°39′00″.43
Dec (bottom/right)	+68°39′41″.58
Dec (bottom/left)	+69°53′47″.35

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