M101 - without incidents for a change

[Clarkey]

Having had a couple of clear(ish) nights without a full moon for a change, I managed to get a go on M101. The conditions were not as good as I had hoped with only average seeing from a Bortle 6 location. What was more pleasing is that I did not make any of my usual cock-ups and everything worked🥳

This was 3.5 hours of luminance, 75 minutes per channel of RGB and 2 hours of Ha taken with an ASI1600MM. Processing was done with APP and Affinity. Constructive comment and advice appreciated. I feel I should be getting more detail from the amount of integration time, but maybe I am expecting too much.

 

[ultranova]

That's come out nice,

Detail is good the only thing that its lacking a bit is blue,

There's normally a fairly strong blue  hue to most of the galaxy

for some reason there does not seem to be none.

the Ha is really coming through nice though.

well done 

Paul

[Clarkey]

4 hours ago, ultranova said:

There's normally a fairly strong blue  hue to most of the galaxy

for some reason there does not seem to be none.

Probably my poor processing. I think when I put it through APP star colour calibration it tends to go blue for most things. I probably undid the blue a bit too much. Ooops!

New version below - now with blue!!

Edited April 8, 2021 by Clarkey
Added new picture.