April 19, 2020: 2 more hours of M101

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just finished processing the two hours worth of data I got last night. By themselves they look pretty decent, especially from a Bortle 5 sky, for an object with such a low surface brightness.

I then combined it with the set from yesterday, and the noise is a bit more controlled.

Might go for another 2 hours on this target tonight. The only issue is that there are so many other tempting targets in the sky! Had we but world enough and time

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Couldn't resist tweaking the image a bit. Makes it a bit brighter, and hopefully doesn't explode the noise too much

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Well on my laptop it looks fine, but on my desktop the noise in the background is a bit much. More data needed (as always)