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SN2023ixf in Messier 101 (RGB), Linda
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SN2023ixf in Messier 101 (RGB)

SN2023ixf in Messier 101 (RGB), Linda
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SN2023ixf in Messier 101 (RGB)

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We had a perfectly clear night but also an atmosphere full of wild fire smoke so it wasn't obvious what, if anything, would be worth imaging. The sky quality meter was reading half a magnitude brighter than normal and when I went out ad looked at the sky I saw very few stars making for some wretched transparency. But, someone mentioned the supernova and I figured I should at least try. It was less than two hours of integration but even in a single sub, the supernova was obvious. And, actually for less than two hours, it isn't too bad!

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RGB:
channel combination
dynamic crop
DBE
SPCC
blurXterminator
noiseXterminator
GHS
MLT (sharpening)

I wasn't trying to get creative as I didn't have a lot of data to try to tease out faint detail. Really I just wanted an obvious galaxy to provide context for the supernova.

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