- Exposure: L(R+Ha)GB
- All exposures binned 1x1
- Luminance: 28x600s
- Ha: 23x1200s
- RGB: 15x:60014x600:14x600s
- Telescope: Stellarvue SV152 and TMB152
- Mount: MI-250 and Paramount ME
- Cameras:
- SBIG ST-10XME CCD (LRGB), SBIG CFW-10, AstroDon E-Series TruBalance Filters
- SBIG STL-6303 CCD (Ha), AstroDon E-Series TruBalance Filters
- Location:
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- Date/Time:
- Ha:
- March 29 2007, 21:25-11:36 MDT
- March 31/April 1 2007, 20:05-04:23 MDT
- Luminance:
- April 16/17 2007, 21:11-04:26 PDT
- RGB:
- May 15/16 2007, 21:59-01:39 PDT
- May 19/20 2007, 22:06-02:59 PDT
- Processing: Taken in MaxIM/DL v4 and CCDSoft v5 using CCD Commander. Reduced, aligned, combined sub-exposures, and RGB combine in CCDStack. Color balancing, Ha+R combine, Lab LRGB combine, GradientXTerminator, contrast adjustment, USM, saturation adjustment, Shadows/Highlights, and Noise Ninja in Photoshop.
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- Name: M106 (NGC4258), NGC4248, PGC39615, and others.
- Type: Galaxy
- Constellation: Canes Venatici
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