Finally, I had a good clear night and had enough time to image something properly with the Starshoot G3. This time, I thought I would shoot a galaxy, and I chose M63 because it is a tightly wrapped spiral with a lot of fine detail. Although this object would fare better using the 8 inch, being I'm still learning how to use this camera, I used the 6 inch. The 8 inch's field of view with this camera is substantially smaller, and I really didnt want to mess this up with tracking and framing problems.
The 6" still showed quite a bit of detail. I might have done a little better with more, shorter exposures, as the core is blown out. However, I got the fainter extreme outer regions nicely with these 5 minute subs.
This was my first processing attempt. These images are much more difficult to process. I do believe however, that this camera is the way to go for smaller objects.
This next image was restacked, and reprocessed. I took 20 dark frames and was able to go a little deeper.
I may have lost a little detail in this one, but I like the color better, and I got a little more of the outer regions of the galaxy. I cannot figure out why the images are flipped vertically. I didnt flip them, but I noticed in Fits Liberator, some of the frames were flipped and some were not. I dont recall the exact processing workflow I used when producing these, so it might have something to do with the original fits files.
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