M64 - Black Eye Galaxy from Lancashire

[fireballxl5]

M64 the Black Eye Galaxy located within the boundaries of Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair), favourably positioned for observing in Springtime. I acquired the raw data on 25th March 2022 at our Astro Society's local 'dark-sky' site near to Dunsop Bridge. Conditions were difficult, with a strong gusting breeze and so I reduced the sampling rate of the image by binning pixels in software at point of capture to BIN4.

This is just 1hour 22mins of exposure processed in PixInsight, including BlurXTerminator which just does the detail business very well😉

RC6 - Flattener - IDAS D2 LPF - ASI533MC Pro

41x120s

CS, Andy

[MartinB]

Well done Andy, especially given the difficult circumstances.  It has a tint of the dreaded green which is, to my eye, just distracting a little from the overall appearance

[fireballxl5]

12 hours ago, MartinB said:

It has a tint of the dreaded green which is, to my eye, just distracting a little from the overall appearance

Thanks for the feedback @MartinB. I see this green now, especially on my phone display, though it doesn't seem so obvious in the original TIFF. I did include an SCNR G@0.5 step but it looks like I undid it. Will look at the colour balance in more detail...

[Karl Perera]

I shall have to image this one! Is it best in the Galaxy Season?