Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3034
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M82 / Cigar Galaxy (RGB), Turix
M82 / Cigar Galaxy (RGB), Turix

M82 / Cigar Galaxy (RGB)

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M82 / Cigar Galaxy (RGB), Turix
M82 / Cigar Galaxy (RGB), Turix

M82 / Cigar Galaxy (RGB)

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

M82 / Cigar Galaxy

The other half of my abortive mosaic with M81 / Bode's Galaxy

I decided to take a different approach to the processing this time around, leading with a relatively more delicate RGB processed image. I've also produced a NBRGB processed image too which I've included as revision B (included as the mouse-over).

Unfortunately I had to blow the stars out far more than I would have liked, a large number of star cores were badly clipped in the stack and I really struggled to repair them sufficiently to use them with a gentler stretch. Lesson learned for next time I guess!

Comments

Revisions

  • Final
    M82 / Cigar Galaxy (RGB), Turix
    Original
  • M82 / Cigar Galaxy (RGB), Turix
    B

B

Title: NBRGB

Description: Processed using NBRGBCombination with including both Ha and Oiii data

Uploaded: ...

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

M82 / Cigar Galaxy (RGB), Turix