Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 106  ·  NGC 4232  ·  NGC 4248  ·  NGC 4258
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M106, Earle Waghorne
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M106

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M106, Earle Waghorne
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M106

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Spent the spring trying to improve both data capture and processing and, this time of year, galaxies are the obvious targets.

I replaced the guide scopes with OAGs, which took some getting used to but fixed the oval stars on my 8" Quattro and made balancing the rigs much easier .

I tried using the ZWO 2600MC on the RC for RGB and adding Ha and Lum taken with a ZWO1600MM on the Quattro. For M106 I only tried Lum and really didn't get any improvement from it; clearly still much more to learn about processing.

So, the M106 image is simply from two nights using the ZWO2600 on the RC with the focal length reducer (so around 1090 mm)

Hope you enjoy and, of course, all comments are more than welcome.

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M106, Earle Waghorne