This is M106, a galaxy I have dreamed about for a few years and now with my new iOptron Gem28 astro mount, I am able to find it! This was taken with a 73% moon, so the sky was bright. Initially that evening was only supposed to be for testing purposes, but once my tests were done, I couldn't help but image a few objects even though I had figured they would be severely washed out.
So the Galaxies are lacking in color, but what struck me and caused me to really enjoy this was all of the other galaxies in this same image. I had no clue going in to that night. Once I did my preliminary processing and I saw the obects take shape, I thought this could be a really cool image, even they don't have much color in them.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
PS. M106 is the big one.
iOptron Gem28 Astro Mount
Nikon D850 - Not Modified
Tamron 15-600mm @600mm
ISO 1000 f6,3 60 seconds
60 - Light Frames
64 - Flat Frames
49 - Dark Frames
70 - Bias Frames
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop
So the Galaxies are lacking in color, but what struck me and caused me to really enjoy this was all of the other galaxies in this same image. I had no clue going in to that night. Once I did my preliminary processing and I saw the obects take shape, I thought this could be a really cool image, even they don't have much color in them.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
PS. M106 is the big one.
iOptron Gem28 Astro Mount
Nikon D850 - Not Modified
Tamron 15-600mm @600mm
ISO 1000 f6,3 60 seconds
60 - Light Frames
64 - Flat Frames
49 - Dark Frames
70 - Bias Frames
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in Photoshop
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