M81 and M82 Galaxies LRGB+HA

Wow, what a massive learning curve it has been to learn PixInsight to process what I feel is the hardest image I have had to process so far, I struggled processing the normal way so it was suggested to use PixInsight to process, I did and well.....I now need to reprocess all my previous images......

 

M81 and M82 Galaxies in Ursa Major

 

Image Details

29x300S in LRGB

17x600S in 7nm HA

25 Darks and 25 Flats applied

 

Equipment Details:

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro

Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF 8" Newtonian F4

Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+

Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED

Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II

Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm

Filters: Baader Planetarium LRGB+HA 36mm Unmounted

 

Proccessing:

Stacking and Combining: Maxim DL

Processing: PixInsight 1.8 x64

 

The images were taken over a number of nights since the beginning of december and totals 12.5 Hours of exposure time

Done