15th Feb 2024: Astro Pixel Processor 2.0.0-beta29 released - macOS native File Chooser, macOS CMD-Q fixed, read-only Fits on network fixed and other bug fixes
7th December 2023: added payment option Alipay to purchase Astro Pixel Processor from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and other countries where Alipay is used.
Between March 3rd and 8th there were a few breaks from cloudyness. I managed to shoot M106 with my SW 250/1200 PDS and the ZWO 533MC-Pro.
My Mini-PC had issues saving the BIAS-images (maybe SSD faulty, don't know) and the dimmer on my flatpanel was not working, so I had to do this afterwards all again. But in the end APP 2.0.0. beta 29 gave me a pleasing image-stack to work with.
Exposure time: 989x 30s and 79x 180s. UV/IR-cut filter.
M106 is currently in a starbursting phase, you can see countless bright blue young stars in its spiral arms. It has a massive and active black hole in the core with a mass of 40 million solar masses.
If the weather would have been nicer to me, I would have been able to make some H-alpha imaging, too. But not now, it should not be.
