M106 19th April

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M106 taken using my Celestron C8 with Meade 0.63 reducer and a Zwo ASI 294 MC pro camera. Capture software was NINA with PHD2 for guiding (separate guide scope currently being used).

A total of 239 90 second subs taken at bin 2. The subs along with flats, darks and dark flats were stacked with Pixinsight using weighted batch pre processing. All subsequent steps were performed using Pixinsight to get the final image.

I am still not sure I have the C8 optimsed properly with the back focus from the Meade reducer. Additionally I have convinced myself that my flats are not right as there was a lot of vignetting and. some rather odd halos concentric to the galaxy.

The capture was probably not helped by a rather prominent moon, but if I waited for clear skies and no moon I wouldn’t capture anything!

Thanks for looking

Ian

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