M82 - Cigar Galaxy (Steve Ludwig)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Cigar Galaxy · HD85161 · HD85533 · M 82 · NGC 3034

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M82 - Cigar Galaxy

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M82 - Cigar Galaxy

Equipment

- Main scope: Bresser Messier 10" Newton (254/1270)
- Main camera: Nikon D3300 (unmodified)
- Guide scope: Orion AC 50/162 Deluxe Mini
- Guide camera: ZWO ASI 290MC
- Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R
- Explore Scientific HR coma corrector

Acquisition

- 85 lights x 300 s = 7 h 5 min
- no dark, flat, bias frames
- no filters
- ISO 200
- Bortle 4

Processing (latest revision)

- stacked in DSS
- bilinear debayer method & median kappa sigma clipping

- unmodified TIF opened in PixInsight
- STF stretch
- dynamic crop
- dynamic background extraction
- BlurXTerminator to improve details in the galaxy
- background neutralization
- color calibration
- histogram transformation
- SCNR applied on image and inverted image to remove greenish noise and pink artifacts
- starnet to separate background and stars
- masked curves transformation of background to reduce saturation (color noise) of background
- masked curves transformation of background to increase saturation of the galaxy
- masked curves transformation of stars to increase saturation
- pixel math to recombine background and stars
- multiscale median transform to generate a residual image of the biggest structures (artificial gradients) --> artificial flat
- clone stamp tool to remove the galaxy from the artificial flat
- curves transformation to reduce the brightness of the artifical flat
- pixel math to substract artifical flat from image
- resample 50% to improve general noise (not much detail loss as the image was oversampled anyway)
- mild ACDNR with maximum "bright sides edge protection" to not lose much of the detail again
- final histogram / curves transformations
- saved as jpg

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Distribution of astrophotographers

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	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
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Distribution of subject types

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
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Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

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Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7816347
PixInsight job	O6IXB15LKIHJXW4ZE27FKXQTE0PL73T8
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	09h56m02s.65
RA (top/left)	10h01m45s.57
RA (top/right)	09h54m17s.74
RA (bottom/right)	09h50m19s.98
RA (bottom/left)	09h57m42s.83

Dec (center)	+69°41′09″.8
Dec (top/left)	+69°42′08″.4
Dec (top/right)	+70°09′31″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°39′25″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+69°12′40″.4

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