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M101 with SN2023ixf, pcyvr
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M101 with SN2023ixf

M101 with SN2023ixf, pcyvr
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M101 with SN2023ixf

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The recently identified supernova in M101 showed up sometime between my first and last capture on this image (although not between one sub and the next on the same night).  Amazing to witness something like this in a galaxy 20 million light years away and mind-blowing to think how long those photons travelled before hitting the tiny sensor on the end of my telescope.

This is a combination of broadband data (captured with the L-Pro) blended with Ha data (extracted as the red channel from data taken with the Antlia dual narrowband filter).  The technique demonstrated in this Pixinsight video was used to restore colour balance after blending in the Ha data.

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M101 with SN2023ixf, pcyvr