Balcony strikes again: M82

[perfrej]

Luckily I had a few hours of clear skies, albeit with a little bit of moonlight for the first half. In an effort to get to know my mount even better, I am concentrating on M81 and M82 at f/6.3 in the EdgeHD 9.25. Details:

EdgeHD 9.25 with Lepus reducer (0.63x)

SBIG ST8300M, Baader LRGB filters

L: 15 x 5m

R: 17 x 5m

G: 16 x 5m

B: 15 x 5m

10Micron GM2000HPS, no guiding

Capture with Nebulosity 3, preprocessing in Nebulosity 3

Processing (all of five minutes of work - Q&D) in PI (Reg, Integration, LRGB comb, Bg neutr, ABE, SCNR,histogram, Color sat, ACDNR)

Sharpening in PS 5

I like my new mount, but ten minutes at FL 1540 has not been a success so far. But then again, I only see half the sky so alignment could be better.

/per

[Quatermass]

Lovely image with lots of colour and detail very nice.

[Gina]

Lovely

[PNJ]

hi

Very nice image, well done

have sent you a private message about 9.25

thanks

paul j

[Anweniel]

Lovely job with the colour and depth in this, have you processed Bodes also? Would love to see it. The Edge HD scopes look amazing and the images I've seen from them are very nice.

[Nightfly]

That is a very nice image. Fine work.

[perfrej]

Thanks all!

As for M81, yes, I have did it a week or so ago. The 9.25 is indeed a wonderful scope. I have yet to try full FL work with it but will do that soon. At this time I think that I will have to resort to actually guiding at that FL because 6-7 minutes seems to be the limit for unguided at 0.63x right now. It will probably improve if I get a fixed observatory in place and can see the whole sky.

/per

/per

[Gina]

Beautiful