M64 The Black Eye Galaxy

Here’s 34 hours of data of M64 acquired with Voyager (of course!) from my front yard in Wake Forest, NC, a 19.5 SQM sky.

Esprit 120 refractor
iOptron CEM60 mount
ASI1600MM cool camera
ZWO LRGB and Ha filters

Acquired in February and March 2019 - while I slept, thanks Leo :smile: !

Preprocessing with AstroPixelProcessor, postprocessing with PixInsight.

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19.5 ? its a miracle !! Congrats … great result :hushed:

Excellent shot Rowland! :+1:

Roberto

Thanks Leo and Roberto!

All it takes is Voyager and 8 to 12 clear nights :slight_smile: !

Rowland

Nicely done, Rowland!

Glenn

Thanks Glenn :slight_smile: !

Cheers,
Rowland