M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy (Mina m.b.)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: IC 4263 · M 51 · NGC 5169 · NGC 5194 · NGC 5195 · NGC 5198 · Whirlpool Galaxy

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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy

This is actually old data from last spring, so far I've not been lucky weatherwise this galaxy season. Generally I was very preoccupied with job, uni, private life last year, when the weather was good I usually was booked, so I didn't do a lot. I shot twice last year and now I'm editing those old shots. I decided to give the better data, not even 4 hours of M51, a try. This data frustrated me to no avail last year, but I spent a lot of time trying to get back into PixInsight over easter, and updated my processing routine. There will be lots of amazing stuff incoming - I'm spending 10 days on La Palma this may, so I really want to get back into my beloved hobby of astrophotography, even though I kinda felt burned out by it and life in general last year. I promised to myself to find the joy in it again, and this edit is a good first step imo. Last year, I tried to squeeze out more data than it was available, so the edit was blotchy, but I kinda accepted this is the best I'll ever get under Bortle 5 skies, with 80mm aparture and not even 4 hours, so I'm actually insanely happy how it turned out given my limitations.

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