Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool galaxy
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Messier 51, apaquette
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Messier 51

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Messier 51

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Description

12h40m of total exposure of M51 with HD14 and U16M.

Off-axis guided with Skyris 274M and Metaguide.

This is an RGB-only image with 20 minute sub-exposures.

Local sharpening and contrast enhancement was done to the main part of M51 but otherwise no complex processing was performed.

Colour balance was set using a "make the average star colour white" algorithm.

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Messier 51, apaquette