Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 106  ·  NGC 4248  ·  NGC 4258
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M106 Galaxy - (RGB from Esprit150, L from a GSO 8" Newtonian), Andreas Eleftheriou
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M106 Galaxy - (RGB from Esprit150, L from a GSO 8" Newtonian)

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M106 Galaxy - (RGB from Esprit150, L from a GSO 8" Newtonian), Andreas Eleftheriou
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M106 Galaxy - (RGB from Esprit150, L from a GSO 8" Newtonian)

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This is a collaboration project with my friend Yiannis Doukakis (https://www.astrobin.com/users/Yannis/), who has provided the M106 L data (55x240sec) 220 minutes acquired with his GSO 8" Newtonian in Greece, to combine with my RGB data of 330 minutes acquired with my Esprit150 from Cyprus.

Post processing of both L and RGB was done in Pixinsight and the RGB data was registered to the L data, resulting to a resolution of 0.948 arcsec/pixel.

The core of the galaxy was 50-50 blended to maintain the small-scale structural details of the RGB image, while the external shell of the galaxy has been enhanced by the richer data of the 8" reflector.

This has been fun, Yannis, lets try this again soon!

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M106 Galaxy - (RGB from Esprit150, L from a GSO 8" Newtonian), Andreas Eleftheriou