Messier 64 from Bortle 7-8 skies (Wanda Conde)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: Black Eye Galaxy · Black-eye galaxy · Evil Eye Galaxy · M 64 · NGC 4826

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Messier 64 from Bortle 7-8 skies

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Messier 64 from Bortle 7-8 skies

The climate where I live is usually a bit more "friendly" to do astrophotography during Galaxy season. Every year around this time I shoot a couple of broadband objects and have had reasonable results considering I live about 15 miles away from the San Juan metropolitan area. I recently took readings with a sky quality meter and got SQM readings that range from 18.1 - 18.48. That's kind of bad I guess

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This image is the result of about 8 hours of integration with broadband filters (RGB only; Luminance is impossible!). My goal was (and still is) to reach 10 hours, but the weather in recent weeks has not allowed me to add more integration time. Not sure if adding more integration time will help, but I would like to give it a shot.

Yesterday I decided to see how well (or poorly) I was doing and I have to tell you that I was surprised by the result!

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Light Polluted skies

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RA (center)	12h56m43s.620
RA (top/left)	12h56m46s.622
RA (top/right)	12h58m14s.620
RA (bottom/right)	12h56m40s.589
RA (bottom/left)	12h55m12s.563

Dec (center)	+21°40′52″.56
Dec (top/left)	+21°19′37″.92
Dec (top/right)	+21°38′46″.39
Dec (bottom/right)	+22°02′07″.40
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°42′57″.25

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