[RCC] M81/M82

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Photon_Collector avatar
Shot with Askar 120 APO with 0.8x reducer. Bortle 1/2 (Starfront Observatories); LRGBHa approx. 15.75h integration. This is also my first mono image and first NB+broadband image. I think I stretched the lum data too much and it is causing some weird halo like effects on the galaxies. More integration is needed to really pull out the IFN as well. 
andrea tasselli avatar
It's very pinky.
Die Launische Diva avatar
It is pinky smile. And it gets pinkier towards the right bottom corner. Given the sky quality and exposure time, it lacks color diversity and the pink gradient shouldn't exist. Now, composition-wise, a portrait orientation ("rotate 90º clockwise") could work better.