by Jon Talbot
Image of the area around M106. Taken 15-19 March 09 from my backyard observatory in Ocean Springs, MS.
6hrs of luminance and 6hrs of RGB. Color data binned 2x2. Luminance subframes 5 min. Color subframes 5min.
Scope: Stellarvue SV105 triplet with SVFF2 field flattener. Camera: SBIG STL 11K
Processing: Data reduced with CCD Stack. Processing with PixInsight. Post processing with Photoshop CS2.