Saturday, 14 May 2011

Bad Astrophotos No.2 - M101

Another very early image created in April 2011 when I was learning how (not) to take flats and calibrate properly.  The image has a hot spot in the centre and corners where the flat frames have not corrected the images, probably due to the camera being moved between the images and flats being taken.
M101 - 10 x 120s subs
Even when I reprocessed the data and cropped the image, it is still pretty dreadful.  Lesson learned: don't change the image train before all calibration frames are taken.
M101 restacked with different reference image, cropped and reprocessed


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