I finally got a couple of clear nights and shot some images of M65 & M66 in the constellation of Leo. These two galaxies are 35 million and 31 million light years away respectively. The first image was taken using LRGB filters ( Luminance, Red, Green and Blue). The second image was taken substituting a Hydrogen Alpha (Ha) filter for the red channel. The third image combined 60% Red and 40% Ha for the red channel. The last image was the same as the third expect that the dimmer part of the image was stretched to see some of the Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) outside our galaxy. All questions comments and suggestions are welcome.

For those interested the images were taken at a 4064mm focal length at F10 using a Meade 16 inch LX200 Schmidt Cassegrain telescope. The camera used was an ASI 6200MM pro monochrome camera with the gain set to 100 and cooled to -20C. Processing was done with Pixinsight and the appropriate Bias, Flat and Dark Frames were used to calibrate the image.
The following exposures were used to construct these images.

Luminance 77 exposures at 2 minutes each
Red 20 exposures at 4 minutes each
Green 19 exposures at 4 minutes each
Blue 20 exposures at 4 minutes each
Ha 36 exposures at 500 seconds each

Total exposure time 11 hours and 50 minutes

I finally got a couple of clear nights and shot some images of M65 & M66 in the constellation of Leo. These two galaxies are 35 million and 31 million light years away respectively. The first image was taken using LRGB filters ( Luminance, Red, Green and Blue). The second image was taken substituting a Hydrogen Alpha (Ha) filter for the red channel. The third image combined 60% Red and 40% Ha for the red channel. The last image was the same as the third expect that the dimmer part of the image was stretched to see some of the Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) outside our galaxy. All questions comments and suggestions are welcome.

For those interested the images were taken at a 4064mm focal length at F10 using a Meade 16 inch LX200 Schmidt Cassegrain telescope. The camera used was an ASI 6200MM pro monochrome camera with the gain set to 100 and cooled to -20C. Processing was done with Pixinsight and the appropriate Bias, Flat and Dark Frames were used to calibrate the image.
The following exposures were used to construct these images.

Luminance 77 exposures at 2 minutes each
Red 20 exposures at 4 minutes each
Green 19 exposures at 4 minutes each
Blue 20 exposures at 4 minutes each
Ha 36 exposures at 500 seconds each

Total exposure time 11 hours and 50 minutes