M97-M108 Four hours of data...

[fwm891]

Hi, Over the last few nights I've been gathering some data in the area around M97 and M108 nin Ursa Major. Started just as a framing test to see if the pair would fit sensibly within an image. processing the first frame revealed a couple of 'fuzzy patches' so I decided to see how deep it would go...

First night gave me about an hour through a Baader Lumin filter, then on other nights I've gathered an hour with green and blue filters and additional lumin data totalling just over 4 hours. Red data to follow.

All the data has been pulled together with Astroart 5.0 and tweaked in PS. Astro art processing used gradient and hot pixel removal tools plus levels. PS - extra tweaking with curves. No flats, darks or bias frames shot (yet)...

A Digital Sky Survey image was laid over my ringed image which confirmed the fuzzies are 'proper fuzzies'...