M101 - Getting familiar with a new camera (Daniel Gallagher)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: HD122865 · M 101 · NGC 5447 · NGC 5449 · NGC 5450 · NGC 5451 · NGC 5453 · NGC 5455 · NGC 5457 · NGC 5461 · NGC 5462 · NGC 5471 · NGC 5477 · Pinwheel galaxy

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M101 - Getting familiar with a new camera

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M101 - Getting familiar with a new camera

This is not only my first attempt at M101, but also first light with my new QHY533C camera. I also did a mount hyper-tune and Rowan belt mod over the past month of cloudy nights, so I spent a large portion of the early evening recalibrating PHD2 and making sure everything was ok. I kinda rushed the calibration frames at the end of the night, so I believe there may be room for improvement with them. I will likely add multiple versions of this image to document any post-processing improvements.

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Description: Went back and ran through post-processing again. This time I removed ten 60 second subs and two 90sec subs that had some defects (even though PixInsight should handle during WBPP). The 60sec subs were not taken with the L-Pro filter, so I was not sure if they were helping the final stacked image. I also went a little bit lighter on the curves adjustments to try and retain more detail in the galaxy arms. I think this version is an improvement.

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Astrometry.net job	8026883
PixInsight job	A4YZQJ9R8XRA9UKZGJD564EOEO1G0LBO
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	14h03m13s.60
RA (top/left)	14h06m13s.90
RA (top/right)	14h06m19s.77
RA (bottom/right)	14h00m08s.22
RA (bottom/left)	14h00m10s.23

Dec (center)	+54°21′06″.6
Dec (top/left)	+53°53′49″.10
Dec (top/right)	+54°47′48″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	+54°48′05″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+53°54′05″.8

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