M81 and M82

Imaging telescope or lens: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200

Imaging camera: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera FLI

 

Locations: FOVO - Field of View Observatory, Home, Worcestershire, United Kingdom

 

 

Mount: Paramount-ME

Guiding telescope or lens: Borg 77 ED

Software: Pixinsight 1.8

Filters: Ha 5nm, Astrodon Luminance, Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green

Accessories: FLI Atlas, Starlight Xpress lodestar 2

Resolution: 3083x2196

Dates: Dec. 21, 2016, Dec. 22, 2016, Dec. 28, 2016, Jan. 4, 2017, Jan. 5, 2017

Frames:

Astrodon Blue: 26x300" bin 1x1

Astrodon Green: 25x300" bin 1x1

Astrodon Luminance: 44x10" bin 1x1

Astrodon Luminance: 50x30" bin 1x1

Astrodon Luminance: 27x300" bin 1x1

Astrodon Luminance: 43x60" bin 1x1

Astrodon Luminance: 197x600" bin 1x1

Astrodon Red: 24x300" bin 1x1

Ha 5nm: 54x300" bin 1x1

Integration: 47.1 hours

 

Despite a lot of clear nights over the last few weeks seeing has been average or worse. I decided that hunting down a interesting dim target would be pointless! Instead I chose something bright that could be well resolved and provide some detail. After 7-8 nights I decided i better process the data :). The is a lot of data here that has worked well for the two main galaxies. However with this many subs I was hoping for more IFN. There was a lot there but it was not clean, even with nearly 200 lum subs so I did my best to resist the temptation of pushing to hard and just focused on the galaxies. These did process well despite the conditions, on review I could have probably got similar results with 1/3 data but I wanted to see if IFN would resolve under average seeing. Answer is clearly a no! Well not in a way that is clean enough to process nicely!

Done