M 106 LRGB Limited Data Edge 9.25" (Brandon Tackett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 106 · NGC 4248 · NGC 4258

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M 106 LRGB Limited Data Edge 9.25"

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M 106 LRGB Limited Data Edge 9.25"

Over 2 months to complete this project. Many starts and stops along the way: Battling the normal Midwest spring clouds, inability to find a guide star after meridian flip multiple times, loosing the guide star, figuring out I had the wrong offsets on my flats originally. Total integration time definitely suffered and I decided to forgo adding the Ha data for another time.

I did make really progress with several things in my astrophotography skill set: learning how to use NINA's adv sequencing with return to original coordinates if plate solved drifted by so many pixels every 5 subs, creating correct offset flats, and using a new photoshop highpass filter approach to bring out more detail in the core than I deserved for my total integration time.

I am at last satisficed with the image and now to move on to other projects. I did return back to image at the 4.63 um binning on the 294mm for all LRGB with much improvement compared to trying to use the 9.2um binning for RGB on my last several galaxies. I won't be doing that again.

M106 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of canes venatici approximately 25 million light years from Earth. The galaxy is tiled 25 degrees from our view point and provides a great view of its dust lanes.

ZWO ASI294MM Pro Images
Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (SCT) Imagers
Imaged with N.I.N.A.
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Images from the EdgeHD Series
Central USA

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	5970296
PixInsight job	3V0GYEYDIPL80NF2KA3WK513BTNEJGSV
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h18m56s.860
RA (top/left)	12h20m14s.100
RA (top/right)	12h20m11s.303
RA (bottom/right)	12h17m38s.932
RA (bottom/left)	12h17m43s.216

Dec (center)	+47°17′40″.96
Dec (top/left)	+47°02′02″.60
Dec (top/right)	+47°33′45″.40
Dec (bottom/right)	+47°33′16″.20
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°01′34″.80

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