It was interesting to see what I could get without a light pollution filter from my apartment. Because of this I was limited to 60 second exposures for the LRGB frames. It's interesting to compare this to [my previous capture of these galaxies](
https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/866jjo/m81_m82_bodes_and_cigar_galaxies/) from a dark site last March. Captured on February 4th 5th, 7th, and 13th, 2019 from a bortle 7 zone
**Equipment:**
* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
* Orion Sirius EQ-G
* ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
* Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
* ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
* Astrodon H-alpha 5nm 31mm
* Astronomik LRGB Filters- 31mm Mounted
* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding
* Deep Sky Dad Autofocuser
**Acquisition:** 10 hours 23 minutes (Camera at Unity Gain, -20°C)
* Ha- 15x300"
* Lum- 272x60"
* Red- 92x60"
* Green- 92x60"
* Blue- 90x60"
* Darks- 30
* Flats- 30 per filter
**Capture Software:**
* EQMod mount control. Captured using [N.I.N.A.](
https://nighttime-imaging.eu/) and PHD2 for guiding and dithering.
**[PixInsight Processing](
https://i.imgur.com/nDQGxYq.png):**
* BatchPreProcessing
* SubrameSelector
* StarAlignment
* ImageIntegration
* DynamicCrop
* DynamicBackground Extraction
* **Luminance:**
* AutomaticPSF
* AdvStarMask
* Deconvolution
* TVG/MMT Noise Reduction
* HistogramTransformations
* **RGB:**
* LinearFit to Green
* Channel combination
* DBE
* PhotometricColorCalibration
* NBRGBCombination with Ha
* SCNR
* ABE
* ArcsinhStretch
* HistogramTransformation
* LRGBCombination with luminance
* ACDNR
* LocalHistogranEqualization
* [Curve](
https://i.imgur.com/Gtrj6Ay.jpg)Transformations
* MorphologicalTransformation
* Annotation
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