M101Commonly known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101 is about twice the size of our galaxy and is home to an unusual amount of star formation regions. Curiously enough, a supermassive black hole has not yet been observed in the heart of M101, which sets it apart from many other galaxies.
DATA/PROCESSINGThe data for this galaxy was provided by the RASC Robotic Telescope, and was imaged in May of 2021. It consists of 5 hours of RGB data, along with 5 hours of luminance. I almost gave up on this one due to giant streaks of light which were impossible to remove without clone-stamping, but the detail revealed in the luminance using BlurXterminator convinced me to keep going, and eventually I cropped out most of the BG streaks. Thanks to recent tutorial videos from PixInsight on processing this same galaxy in HaLRGB, I finally understand how to match my luminance and RGB data to combine them successfully.
REFERENCENo Supermassive Black Holes in Giant Galaxy Disks: M101 and NGC 6946. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, id.69.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.860, December 2007,
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AAS...211.6906K/abstract 
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