April 16, 2020: A better M106, this time with more friends

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Grabbed two hours on M106, and quickly processed it

Definitely needs more data, but I might be able to get a lot more over the weekend. I will also see how I can best combine this with Wednesday night's data

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Had a tweak of curves in Gimp, and ran in through astrometry.net.

 

There are far more fuzzies visible in the shot. Might want to start looking up what they are (but first more data!!)

[MarkAR]

Tweaked version looked a lot better.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just now, MarkAR said:

Tweaked version looked a lot better.

A lot depends on the monitor, I find. 

[MarkAR]

2 minutes ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said:

A lot depends on the monitor, I find. 

It certainly can, especially with colours.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Mixed in the data from the previous night (only overlaps partially). It does improve S/N. I am hoping to gather at least another 2 h of data this evening, maybe even more. Saturday and Sunday night also promise to be clear, so I might well go for a total of 10-12 h. Fingers crossed.

Need to reduce the colour noise in the background (more data will help too)

[MarkAR]

Definitely more signal.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

18 minutes ago, MarkAR said:

Definitely more signal.

But also much more noise. I am working on an improvement