M106 OSC +Ha (John Favalessa)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 106 · NGC 4248 · NGC 4258 · PGC 166129 · PGC 2292054 · PGC 2292458 · PGC 2292932 · PGC 2294177 · PGC 2297038 · PGC 2299019 · PGC 2299122 · PGC 2299193 · PGC 2300712 · PGC 2300772 · PGC 2301052 · PGC 2301718 · PGC 3096119 · PGC 3096121 · PGC 39615

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M106 OSC +Ha

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M106 OSC +Ha

My name is John Favalessa and I'm an astrophoto addict; it has been 18 days since I last processed an image. I've had processing paralysis due to comparing my images to those of CDK 14's. I am seeking help 🤪

OK, M106, a beautiful close neighbor ~24MLYs away. It is a bit bigger than our Milky Way. Nights are short and trees an issue. In this I used a 2600MC with Lpro and dual narrow band filters. Intergrated using APP, extracted the Ha using APP, processed in Pix. Loving StarXTerminator and NoiseXTerminator. Started processing from scratch several times because of my issues. Next year I plan to use my mono camera and see if I can capture a bit of the star burst coming into the core.

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Description: used a tip the Rodd Dryfoos https://www.astrobin.com/users/RAD/ gave me to add contrast to the arms.

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Description: Masks and moved the black point. I definitely had trouble with the background, maybe bortle 7 and moonlight issues. I usually don't like dark dark backgrounds but this could be my exception. the next idea would be to start from scratch again 🤪 as looks over processed to me.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	5900858
PixInsight job	E4EJRC33AAAY2RK06E4O58I4ULG1MRJ3
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h18m58s.580
RA (top/left)	12h20m25s.625
RA (top/right)	12h20m30s.900
RA (bottom/right)	12h17m30s.355
RA (bottom/left)	12h17m28s.792

Dec (center)	+47°18′42″.48
Dec (top/left)	+46°54′56″.80
Dec (top/right)	+47°42′06″.37
Dec (bottom/right)	+47°42′21″.14
Dec (bottom/left)	+46°55′15″.47

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