M63 First Light 10" Quattro (TStew)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 63 · NGC 5055 · Sunflower Galaxy

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M63 First Light 10" Quattro

First LRGB with the new 10" Quattro and 2600 mono. My first completed LRGB of any kind. So my processing isn't quite up to speed, but I think it turned out well. Also I am still learning collimation, and I know I need to work on the corrector spacing as I'm getting a bit of coma (much was cropped out of the image). I need to experiment with exposures more, I'm a bit out of my element with the 2600mm... many stars were clipped, I did a bit of manual work to blur the donut-hole cored stars. Also had a little rotation mismatch between L and RGB nights so had to do a significant crop... decided to crop top and bottom and leave most of the width since there are some small but interesting swirly galaxies near the left edge.

I may yet make a better version or perhaps shoot more data. Even with these issues, I am blown away at how much detail I was able to get and so quickly, I've never seen this much background detail - all those dozens of tiny galaxies (and a bit of noise, sorry!) it really puts my prior attempts at this target to shame!

With some luck getting it fully dialed in, this 10" newtonian will hopefully be my new main night time rig, and left permanently setup (still working on a roll off roof shed). I will still likely shoot my tracker and camera lenses as well in parallel, I really enjoy seeing how far you can push budget gear and have had pretty good results with them too.

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Title: Luminence stack

Description: Luminence stack from Siril. I have done background extract, light denoise and decon, and GHST stretch.

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Title: Single Light file

Description: Single Luminance light, no processing other than autostretch and save as jpg

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