Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5447  ·  NGC 5449  ·  NGC 5450  ·  NGC 5451  ·  NGC 5453  ·  NGC 5455  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5462  ·  NGC 5471  ·  NGC 5473  ·  NGC 5477  ·  Pinwheel galaxy
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M101 - L(HaR)GB, Uwe Deutermann
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M101 - L(HaR)GB

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M101 - L(HaR)GB

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This is my next attempt on M101, this is as M81 not an easy one. I should have learned that 2 minute exposures just don't do this galaxy good. I had an hour of 300s luminance and it helped, was just not enough. I will give it in my future one more time with a new scope and mount, and maybe I have to go to a dark spot as well, all stars need to line up for me to have at least a chance to make a nicer image. And I need to go to some school of galaxy processing, watched several already on YouTube but so far I cannot get it to click. Some Hα might be not bad though too! Oh and I almost forgot ... man, those gradients in the images were awful! Read through the PI lesson on how to get rid of them the best way, oh my, I do need another scope for that and take some more images of M101!

P.S.: Rodd, please don't compare with yours 😊😊😊, yours is magnificent!

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  • M101 - L(HaR)GB, Uwe Deutermann
    Original
  • M101 - L(HaR)GB, Uwe Deutermann
    B
  • M101 - L(HaR)GB, Uwe Deutermann
    C
  • Final
    M101 - L(HaR)GB, Uwe Deutermann
    D

B

Description: The slightly darker version.

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C

Description: Added more Lum and gathered some Hα data. To make the image better I would need some more RGB data, especially G data, for some reason the current set of G data sucks ... 😉

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D

Description: Another trial from scratch ... still learning.

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M101 - L(HaR)GB, Uwe Deutermann