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Messier 95, 96 and Friends (combined data)

Messier 95, 96 and Friends (combined data)

This was one of two images captured during first light of my Takahashi TOA 130 (before the moon rose). I decided to test using the Ra to see how the tube performs at full frame, so I used my SVR90t as a light guide scope riding piggyback. I managed to catch some extra luminance through that tube which helped with drizzling the final result, but it doesn't look to have helped noise much.

This is (38*182s and 46*304s totaling ~5h48m) from two nights with my Canon Ra at iso1600 and Takahashi TOA 130 with 645 flattener. Calibrated with bias, dark and flat frames. There is then 29*400s (~3h15m) through the SVR90t with Hotech SCA flattener.
Location: Cobble Hill
Imaging configuration: TOA 130 with 645 flattener and Canon Ra at iso 1600 and SVR90t with SBIG8300 and Lum filter.
Guiding: SBIG 8300 with OAG through SVR90t
Mount: Celestron CGE Pro
Processing: Pixinsight (Gradient correction/DBE/Colour Correction/BlurX/Attenuated lightness masks/TVG Denoise/MuliscaleMedianTransform/ArcinhStretch/Starnet++)