Bode’s Galaxy and the Starburst Galaxy

Here is an example. Anyone can scroll down a few weeks, or sort by best, steal the pic and copy and paste just like this:

“Equipment: Explore Scientific ED80 Orion Sirius EQ-G ZWO ASI1600mm Pro William Optics 0.8 FF/FR Orion Magnificent Mini Autoguider Package ZWO EFW ZWO Ha filter ZWO O3 filter

Software:

Sharpcap Pro for polar alignment PHD2 for guiding Cartes Du Ciel Astrophotography Tools for camera control and plate solving

Acquisition: 2 hours 10 minutes

O3 Lights- 15 x 300" high dynamic range, -20C Ha Lights- 13 x 300" high dynamic range, -20C Darks- 25 x 300" Bias- 0 flats- 0

PixInsight Processing:

BatchPreProcessing for each set of data DrizzleIntegration 3x DynamicicBackgroundExtraction StarAlignment DynamicCrop LinearFit Pixelmath (R = Ha, G = O3 green channel, B = O3 blue channel) Deconvolution MulitscaleLinearTransform (denoise) MaskedStretch CurvesTransformation

My first foray with a new camera, learning the software and trying to figure out how to focus was a challenge. I'm not thrilled with the ZWO O3 filter, as it leaves halos around bright objects. This was going to be a hubble palette attempt, but orion is getting in the wrong part of the sky for me these days. Taken in a bortle 9 location.”

I’m confident that has happened before, and nearly impossible to stop. If I see a exposed galaxy shot that I want to share and credit from another site, that rule prohibits it, which isn’t what reddit is all about. Also it is probably flattering for the Astrophotographer as well. I’ll leave it alone, but that rule seems to strict, especially if the posters intentions are pure.

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