Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4263  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
Messier 51, Giuseppe Donatiello
Messier 51
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Messier 51

Messier 51, Giuseppe Donatiello
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Messier 51

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Messier 51

Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello, Tim Stone

RA center: 202.481 ° DEC center: 47.225 °

Messier 51, also called The Whirlpool Galaxy (NGC 5194), is a spiral galaxy interacting in the Canes Venatici constellation. It was the first to be classified as a spiral galaxy. It is estimated that it is approximately 24 million light years away.

This is a scientific-grade deep image of the M51 system, performed to study the weak tidal structures that tell its interaction story and trace the morphology of the tides up to a surface brightness magnitude 29 arcsec −2.

Nomenclature used in accordance with Watkins, Mihos, & Harding (2015) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/800/1/L3

Instruments:

127ED + 3MP ColdCMOS

CA250 + A16M (2014)

CDK17 + U16M (2014)

CDK20 + STX16803 (2017)

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Messier 51, Giuseppe Donatiello