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Messier 82 (Cigar Galaxy)


Messier 82 (Cigar Galaxy)

Acquisition:

Bortle 7 skies
Nikon D5600 camera
Orion Apex 102mm telescope, 1300mm focal length
iOptron CEM26 mount
30s x 521 frames (4h 20m)
f/12.7
ISO 400

Processing:

Siril 1.2.0-beta1:

Background extraction
Photometric color calibration
Generalized hyperbolic transformation

RawTherapee:

Luminance noise reduction
L*a*b chrominance related to luminance curve

GIMP:

Luminance curve
Blue luminance curve (to enhance the galaxy disk slightly)
Saturation
Black point






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