First attempt on the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) (Gabethedog2005)

First attempt on the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)

My first attempt on the Pinwheel Galaxy. My focus was off so I'll definitely be attempting this again the next chance I get, but for a first attempt, I'm pretty happy. I'm also glad to be sharing this as I've only seen one other photo of the Pinwheel galaxy at this focal length and I'd be happy to help other amateur astrophotography's by giving them a better idea of what to expect from a dlsr and 300mm lens when it comes to this object.
Processing
Stacked and Processed in Siril:
cropped
background extraction
photometric color calibration
asinh transformation stretch
histogram stretch
remove green noise
color saturation
Photoshop:
noise removal via camera raw filter
levels stretch
slight saturation adjustment
enhanced the dso using a high pass filter
minor adjustments with camera raw filter
For a more detailed look watch this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIhgS3bvOy0&list=LL&index=52 as it's the step by step process i used with some minor adjustments to better fit the target

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