M101

I went for a relatively long exposure with M101, mainly because of its faint spiral arms - I ended up with just over 17 hours.  

From a processing perspective, the image was sharpened by deconvolution (CCDstack2) and smartsharpen, HDR toning (PS). The Ha was incorporated into the LRGB image by blending the Ha data into the red channel via the PS screen blending mode.  

LIGHTS: L26; R:31: G:11: B:12 x 600s + Ha: 12 x 1200s, DARKS: 30; FLATS:40; BIAS: 100 at -20C.