Messier 101

M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy

Constellation Ursa Major

Right ascension 14h 03m 12s

Declination +54° 20′ 57″

 

The image also contains the discovered supernova inside M101.

 

Details

R-Filter - 86x120s @ -10°C Gain 100 HCG

G-Filter - 86x120s @ -10°C Gain 100 HCG

B-Filter - 86x120s @ -10°C Gain 100 HCG

 

Flats - 10x

Bias - 100x0.2s

 

Equipment

Mount - Pegasus Nyx-101

Telescope - TS-Optics CF-APO 90 mm

Camera - Touptek 26000m

Motorfocus - Pegasus FocusCube v2

Filter Wheel - Starlight Xpress 7x 36mm

Filters - Chroma Set 36mm: L,R,G,B,Ha (5nm),SII (3nm),OIII (3nm)

GuideCam - PlayerOne Mars-C

GuideScope - TSOptics 50mm ED

Flatbox - DeepSkyDad Flap Panel

 

Software

N.I.N.A. - Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy

PHD2

Pixinsight

 

Preprocessing

Flat Calibration

Flat ImageIntegration

Light Calibration

SubframeSelector to select best set of images

StarAlignment

Light ImageIntegration

Drizzle Integration

 

Processing

Dynamic Crop

Dynamic Background Extraction

Channel Combination

BlurXTerminator IntegerResample

NoiseXTerminator

 

Non-Linear

Curve Adjustments

Done