M-106

Just got this cleaned up. It had 2 satellites go through it. Taken with a Orion 100 ED, Cannon 20Da ASA 800 for 10 minutes and sky fog removed with levels adjust in Photoshop. On the large file you can blow this up and see MANY galaxies.

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Here's what it looked like before cleanup....

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Hi Dan, good job. That's quite a challenge! I looked at your sky fogged pic and noticed that there is a wealth of harvestable data. Have you looked at using an IDAS LPS filter? I have found that that works very well in restricting sky fog with regard to photographing galaxies. Just a thought there. I'm jealous you can do 10 min and get that level of noise! I will need to do my taxes soon to see if I can afford the modified 20Da.
Ivan

p.s. looks like you live under the Bermuda triangle! Any luck about driving into the countryside? Makes a big difference for galaxies.

Very nice image!