Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5455  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5471  ·  NGC 5477
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M101 with SN 2023ixf, Michael E.
M101 with SN 2023ixf
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M101 with SN 2023ixf

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M101 with SN 2023ixf, Michael E.
M101 with SN 2023ixf
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M101 with SN 2023ixf

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About 6 hours of RGB integration using my 1800mm fl Maksutov. 
As the additionally acquired Ha data with this F/10 Mak was insufficient for stacking due to too little signal, I decided to switch to my 500mm fl F5.6 refractor and captured approximately 18 hours of data with the l-Extreme-Filter. To achieve a better resolution match, I applied 2x drizzling to the ha image.

Unfortunately the combination of using different scopes, moonlight, poor seeing conditions and my processing skills seemed not to be ideal, as the endresult shows.
Nevertheless here is my galaxy-supernova-combo attempt...

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M101 with SN 2023ixf, Michael E.