M109

[Rodd]

Anothger tough project for me.  If the sky were clear on more nights I would definitely have collected about twice as much data....but alas, that hasn't been the case for over a year.  The challenge for me with this one was maintaining the faint outer glow of the galaxy while keeping a decent background.  This galaxy is huge but very far away compared to the nearby galaxies M101, M51, M31, M33, M106, Fireworks, M63, and IC 342 (83 million light years)--so the color is a bit muted.  I would have liked to collect copius data to pick up the blue star making regions and even some ha--which I did not collect.  This is the best I can do with the data

C11Edge with .7x reducer and ASI 1600--OAG,  15 hours of 120 sec LRGB subs, Bin 2.

 

 

[simmo39]

Looks nice!

[Rodd]

49 minutes ago, simmo39 said:

Looks nice!

Thanks!