Bode’s Galaxy (M81 - Uma) - A (fore-)boding of things to come with the C8 EHD …? (Wouter Cazaux)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Bode's Galaxy · HD85458 · M 81 · NGC 3031

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Bode’s Galaxy (M81 - Uma) - A (fore-)boding of things to come with the C8 EHD …?

At first, I didn’t think it would be worthwhile processing this data, I only had about 4hours left of the nearly 8hrs that I had captured. On the first couple of nights, I had to throw out nearly 90% of the subs because of satellites, wind shaking the telescope, etc …

Given that the weather isn’t going to clear up soon, no chance at getting extra data in, I’ve decided to see what I could make of slightly less than 4hours with an f10 scope. This was imaged mainly in parallel with the M101 I posted earlier, as a first reach towards galaxies with the C8 EHD. Imaged at f10 (native focal length, no reducer, no binning, no crop).

Same processing run like with M101. I went for an approach of deeply, warmly saturating the golden look of M81 (as apposed to the colder look that is generally being shown). A bit short on integration time for the fine detail ...

Happy to hear your thoughts ….

M81
C8, UVIR/L-PRO, ASI2600MC, EQ6-R Pro
180s 75x = 3h45
20230213-14-25-26

Any constructive guidance is welcome .. always looking how I can still improve on this

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RA (center)	09h55m35s.545
RA (top/left)	09h59m07s.700
RA (top/right)	09h52m01s.272
RA (bottom/right)	09h52m08s.224
RA (bottom/left)	09h59m06s.100

Dec (center)	+69°04′06″.70
Dec (top/left)	+69°16′37″.72
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Dec (bottom/right)	+68°51′18″.22
Dec (bottom/left)	+68°51′42″.26

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