M101

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I scheduled my first robotic telescope job to target the M101 Pinwheel Galaxy.

Below are the details of my observing plan

M101 Details
M101 Details

I managed to noise reduce the image in FITS Liberator so it looks like this:

M101 Noise Reduced
M101 Noise Reduced

I failed massively in my attempts to process the image and stack the RGB frames to produce a colour version of the picture. However, my class mate Mark was kind enough to do this for me.

M101 Colour
M101 Colour

 

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