Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034
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M81 and M82 HaLRGB, Dan Kusz
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M81 and M82 HaLRGB

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M81 and M82 HaLRGB, Dan Kusz
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M81 and M82 HaLRGB

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My first attempt at M81 and M82. I find it really difficult to pull the detail out and balance out the background. I wanted to make sure to really capture the Ha regions in both galaxies, especially m82. I tried to lighten the background a bit to show the faint integrated flux nebula without bringing in too much noise. still working on processing but I wanted to show you what I had so far. This is also my longest total integration time image, 21.9 hours.

CC welcome

Thanks

CS

Dan

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Description: Did a fresh re process and tried to clean up the back ground and bring our more of the Ha and the IFN.

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Description: Slight tone adjustment, found it was too blue.

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M81 and M82 HaLRGB, Dan Kusz