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M81, M82 and IFN, Peter Cox
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M81, M82 and IFN

Revision title: Reprocess October 2022

M81, M82 and IFN, Peter Cox
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M81, M82 and IFN

Revision title: Reprocess October 2022

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A first light of my Sky-Watcher Esprit 80ED and QHY268M combo. It was initially intended to be a wider field showing the IFN, but despite about 38 hours of total integration time it was still mostly too faint to bring out. My processing skills weren't up to the task. 

I decided to crop the image to a panorama to highlight the galaxy pair instead.

In the October 2022 reprocess, I added many more hours of data for more than 70 hours total. Much happier with the result.

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Title: Reprocess October 2022

Description: With new knowledge I've been able to extract the elusive IFN from the data and produce this new version. Much happier with the result now.

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M81, M82 and IFN, Peter Cox