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Galactic Vortex (M51), Scott Denning
Galactic Vortex (M51)
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Galactic Vortex (M51)

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Galactic Vortex (M51), Scott Denning
Galactic Vortex (M51)
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Galactic Vortex (M51)

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Acquisition details

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Description

M51 April 23-25

C8 EdgeHD @f7 FL=1488 mm

L: 58x120s

R: 52x120s

G: 68x120s

B: 80x120s

Collected Ha too, but had no end of trouble processing so gave up!

Calibrated, Debayered, SubframeSelected, Weighted, Aligned, Linear Fit Integrated

Color Combined

Photometric Color Calibration

Gentle Denoise with MLT

Deconvolution

Histogram stretch to nonlinear

TGV Denoise

Star reduction with mask & Morphological transformation

Curves transformation

Saturation boost

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Galactic Vortex (M51), Scott Denning