M82 Balcony - more data added

[perfrej]

A very clear night, last night, so I added more to M82. The present shot - which I haven't given much love in terms of processing - has the following details:

EdgeHD 9.25 with Lepus 0.62x reducer, SX Wheel, Baader LRGB filters, SBIG ST8300M.

10Micron GM2000HPS UP without guiding

L 30 x 5min

R 35 x 5min

G 33 x 5min

B 32 x 5min

Capture Nebulosity 3, pre-process (Flats/Bias) in Nebulosity 3, All processing in PI

Looks like it will stay reasonably clear tonight too, so I will add some more before I venture into actually processing this baby

/per

[Starlight 1]

Nice job you are making of M82

[Gina]

Very nice indeed

[Jessun]

Very clean and pleasant editing. A cigar beauty! With so many subs, you could have halved them and gone for 10 min?

[perfrej]

Ah, yes, I could,but then I would probably have washed out stars. Besides, my unguided performance presently limits me to about six minutes at focal length 1540mm. Not bad in itself, but I have yet to try and guide the mount

Thanks for the comments, all!

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[Spikey]

That is a lot of colour data you've captured. did you consider just going for Ha + pure RGB ?

[perfrej]

Yes, Ha is on the short-list. I want to move the subs up to 15 minutes and need to either get guiding going or just align better and do it unguided, the latter approach maybe not attainable...

I am running the Starshoot Autoguider in parallel tonight in order to assess the tracking errors. It is a good recorder of things

/per

[Cloudwatcher]

Wow! That must be the best M82 I've seen this year......

Can't wait to see the final result........even the posted jpeg with a bit of sharpening and saturation is a rival to Hubble........see attached.

[Quatermass]

Thats a great m82 very nice detail and colour best I have seen.