Oooh that's nice. Superb actually. That is far better than many CCD images I have seen of this object which often show it very white with unpleasant pink patches of H11 areas. Also often very vague in form.
Yours shows the form, has the nice spiral arms in bluish tones yet captures the yellowish supermassive black hole area.
You gotta love these fast Newtonian Astrographs eh Mike? They certainly produce a wonderfully pleasing image.
Well done.
Greg.
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