Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034
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M81/82 OSC Filter Combination, Abdul Thomas Jnr
M81/82 OSC Filter Combination
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M81/82 OSC Filter Combination

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M81/82 OSC Filter Combination, Abdul Thomas Jnr
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M81/82 OSC Filter Combination

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Well here it is! The first proper Astrophotography project I have ever done. I did a collection with the Astronomik L2 Uv/Ir cut filter,Idas Nbz and Optolong L Pro filters. I wanted to collect a lot of data to see what I can come up with. At the end I managed to collect 33 hours and 21 minutes of data with 3 different filters. But I had to delete all of the data I got with the Optolong L Pro filter (all 13 hours and 43 minutes) because the images were washed out from my Bortle 7 skies and when added with the rest of the filters the data looked washed out. Also had to delete just over 6 hours of Idas Nbz data. Similar issues with the LPro. Seemed like I took most of the images with clouds around and also the light pollution didn't help. At the end I could only use the remaining data I collected from a bortle 4 sites with the Idas and Astronomik filter and only used just over 10 hours of the 33 hours.
Had to use extracted luminance as mask to add data from the Idas.The only way the Ifn could stay on. Star mask took that away. Don't think it's the best way of doing it but I will get there. Got a lot to learn. Not the best image but I'm happy how this turned out

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