Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5462  ·  Pinwheel galaxy
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy and Supernova SN2023ixf, Steve Spring
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy and Supernova SN2023ixf

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Close up of NGC5461 5 days after the discovery of Supernova SN2023ixf.

I had imaged M101 almost exactly a year ago and was really taken by this area in the outer arm. As soon as heard of the SN discovery I pointed back at M101 for some comparison shots.

I'm fairly new to astrophotography and so am really excited to have had this opportunity to witness such an event in another Galaxy and lucky to have before and after shots.

I have tweaked the colours a little to match the two images more closely and put a liitle animation together.

I've put together a small video here also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi-X4JmeSLk

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