M106 and nearby galaxies (Ryan Carroll)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: HD107610 · M 106 · NGC 4217 · NGC 4226 · NGC 4231 · NGC 4232 · NGC 4248 · NGC 4258

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M106 shot from my backyard. Trying new settings on the ASI 294MC pro. I was unaware that the camera's default offset was 30 with gain 120. I have been using NINA which puts a default of 8 for offset.

This was one of the most fun edits I have done. For the first time I feel I have gotten a truly deep field of a Galaxy and extremely small and distant clumps along with neighboring galaxies (in galactic terms) You can see NGC 4217 quite well.

To process this I stretched my primary image with background they way I liked. Sadly this meant that the saturation and detail in the galaxy wasn't quite where I wanted it to be. So I cloned the image in PI and boosted the saturation considerably.

I then took this to photoshop to reduce the stars, and highlight the detail in M106, NGC4217, and some of the smaller galaxies and clusters surrounding M106. I am truly pleased with the detail I got in this image and hope you enjoy!

Subs are 111x300sec gain 120 offset 30 -10

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h18m50s.50
RA (top/left)	12h21m54s.62
RA (top/right)	12h15m04s.69
RA (bottom/right)	12h15m48s.55
RA (bottom/left)	12h22m33s.73

Dec (center)	+47°19′13″.8
Dec (top/left)	+47°44′27″.4
Dec (top/right)	+47°31′38″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+46°53′38″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°06′20″.9

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