M106 and friends

[david_taurus83]

Taken over 3 nights the other week. Warmer weather means my DSLR data is getting noisier. Quite a large crop of the much bigger field of view. I love the colours of those 3 brighter stars at the bottom.

Canon 6D 300 x 120s at ISO1600 (10 hours)

Starwave 102 ED-R at F7, StellMira 1.0 field flattener

iOptrom CEM25P

[tooth_dr]

Stunning image David, one of the nicest M106 + NGC4217 I've seen on here.  The noise is very well controlled and the background is really nice.

[david_taurus83]

Thanks Adam, though your too kind! I tried to make a false lum image from the RGB and process separately but after doing too many steps I made a pigs ear of it. Started again and knocked this out in half an hour on Pixinsight.