I took a picture of the M106 Galaxy with the EdgeHD 11

Equipment used

Telescope: Celestron 11″ EdgeHD
Observatory: NexDome
Mount: iOptron Cem120
PC: Canyon I7 Mini PC
Oag: Celestron
OAG Guidecam Asi174mm mini
Focuser: Rigel nStep
Camera: Asi294mc Pro
Filter drawer: Starizona
Filter: L-Pro 2″ (mostly)
Reducer: Celestron F7

Integration time: 15.45 hours
Distance: 22-25 million light years away
Magnitude: 8.4
Size: 135,000 years in diameter

I first ran the images through AstroPixel Processor to do the stacking (my preferred method when dealing with multiple sessions with multiple sets of flats and dark flats). After that I used PixInsight for processing.

Despite 15 hours of data I found things to be a bit noisy and did my best to reduce that noise post process, not as detailed as my image of andromeda for instance.

Here is the youtube video with more details of the actual capture process

Author: Mark Murrin

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