My capture of the recently discovered supernova in M101, The Pinwheel Galaxy.

Really proud of this image as it demonstrates my astrophotography journey having started the hobby with no photography experience at all. Now capturing stars exploding 21 million light years away. Cool.

Total integration time is 6 hours, one hour each on RGB and three hours on luminance.

Skywatcher HEQ5 pro
Skywatcher 80ED
Altair 26M (LRGB filters)
Skywatcher 50ED Evo guide scope
ZWO asi120mm mini guide cam

Stacked in Astro Pixel Processor

Processed in pixinsight using the following process:

- Dynamic crop on all frames
- ABE
- EZsuite Deconvolution
- EZsuite Denoise
- LRGB combination
- Background neutralisation
- Colour collaboration
- Slight stretch in Histogram trans
- Boost in curves
- Starnet++
- Local histogram trans
- Boost and saturation in curves
- ACDNR

Finished in Photoshop:

- Camera Raw filter

Back to Pixinsight:

- Pixel math to put stars back.