Attack of the Saucer Men (urmymuse)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: HD106420 · HD106556 · M 106 · NGC 4217 · NGC 4226 · NGC 4231 · NGC 4232 · NGC 4248 · NGC 4258

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Attack of the Saucer Men

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Attack of the Saucer Men

M106 and friends always reminds me of space invaders

Taken over seven nights between the 20th April and 11th May

One night was a total loss due to clouds coming in for a bit and scope losing position - need to down load the newer version of NINA which i think has got a plate solve after cloud feature

Another night was mostly lost as laptop rebooted after a windows update ... have changed settings so this doesnt happen again lol

Ha 40 x 300s
Red 214 x 30s
Green 252 x 30s
Blue 149 x 30s
Lume 466 x 30s

= 12 hrs 21 mins

The lume data had very band banding / sensor pattern ... guess dithering wasnt on or something ,hence i have clipped the back ground to hide this

Edit - I have added a crop of the Ha data i captured, just with a couple of levels adjustments, very noisy .... but you can defo see the wisp of Ha that you see in good images of m106 , I havent managed to integrate this but will keep trying lol

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Description: Crop of M106 Ha capture - you can almost see the wisp!

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Description: Added about 3 additional hours ha , complete reprocess applied Blur Exerminator and SpectoralPhotometricColour Calibration (which imanaged to getto work eventually ) ... Ha add in didnt work very well lol ... Heavy crop compared to original

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Astrometry.net job	7292392
PixInsight job	ZXQU8652GT2XP1QA5ZZ1H9AZTG0ASA34
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h17m25s.69
RA (top/left)	12h18m17s.80
RA (top/right)	12h21m09s.61
RA (bottom/right)	12h16m33s.16
RA (bottom/left)	12h13m43s.97

Dec (center)	+47°09′54″.7
Dec (top/left)	+46°31′04″.7
Dec (top/right)	+47°22′03″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+47°48′47″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	+46°57′22″.0

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