Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4277  ·  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 in 20 minutes, Bruce Van Deventer
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M51 in 20 minutes

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M51 in 20 minutes, Bruce Van Deventer
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M51 in 20 minutes

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10x2 minutes unguided with the Meade 16" f/10 SCT, using an early developmental model of the Xerxes Scientific direct drive mount. A simple Tpoint model was generated from about 40 points and used to generate the variable rate tracking commands for the mount. This is also a full frame uncropped image. It was processed in ASTAP using the sigma average stack and for some reason the satellite tracks didn't fully cancel out.

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M51 in 20 minutes, Bruce Van Deventer