M99, Xterminated

[tomato]

This galaxy is on my list to have a go at during this galaxy season but in the meantime I found some data from 2020 which had not yet been processed with the RC suite of Xterminator tools. So here it is, 9.7 hrs taken with the Esprit 150/ASI178 LRGB dual rig, originally imaged at 0.47 arcsec per pixel(!) but now down sampled x 2 prior to processing. There were some massive coloured flares from the bright star in the lower left, but these were easily dealt with using the cosmetic correction tools in Affinity Photo, once they were separated out with SXT.

[WolfieGlos]

Nice work, nice detail to the core at full res, and those small magenta details in the arms really give it some depth.