SN2023ixf in M101

[Budgie1]

Normally I don't bother imaging at this time of year because at nearly 57° North there's no astro darkness and this is my view at midnight on a clear night, like last night:

But then there's this Supernova and I've never had the chance to image a supernova before, let alone have a clear sky when something like this is visible! So I thought I'd give it a go last night (24th May) and see what I could get with about two hours of usable darkness.

I fired up the Obsy at about midnight and used my Evostar 100 ED DS Pro with 0.85 FF/FR connected to the ASI294MC Pro at 200 gain & 30 offset (I already had flats for these settings ) and limited the exposures to 60s. This is what I was imaging into (3s hand held DSLR image so sorry for the stars but you get the idea ).

I managed to get two hours worth with questionable subs at the start & end of the session, but I used them anyway and managed to get this image of SN2023ixf.

Nice and bright with a hint of blue in the halo. I didn't do too much with the processing, so the stars were left alone (no star reduction at all) and only minimal use of curves to get a usable image to share. So, not my finest work but it shows the supernova in as natural state as I can.

 

[Sunshine]

Great images! that supernova is certainly impressive.