Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  HD122471  ·  HD122865  ·  M 101  ·  NGC 5422  ·  NGC 5447  ·  NGC 5449  ·  NGC 5450  ·  NGC 5451  ·  NGC 5453  ·  NGC 5455  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5462  ·  NGC 5471  ·  NGC 5473  ·  NGC 5474  ·  NGC 5477  ·  NGC 5484  ·  NGC 5485  ·  NGC 5486  ·  Pinwheel galaxy
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy (11h with Apo86), Arny
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy (11h with Apo86)

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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy (11h with Apo86), Arny
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy (11h with Apo86)

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2 long nights with clear skies, but a bit too much moon with my 86mm apochromat rendering some great details of the Pinwheel galaxy.

Only 24‘ wide and 7.84 magnitude it was a bit too small for the apo, but I wanted to avoid changing gear half through the night.

11h hours of total integration time are my current max - workin on more :-)

A self 3D printed spider gave me some star crosses - and artefact I just love from my newton :-)

M101 is a spiral galaxy in the big dipper, some 21 million lightyears away and 170.000 lightyears in diameter huge.

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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy (11h with Apo86), Arny

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