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I agreeImaging telescope or lens:Celestron C8
Imaging camera:Canon 450D modified (IR filter removed)
Mount:Meade LX90 12" Fork Mount
Guiding telescope or lens:Eschenbach Cassegrain/Maksutov 500mm - f/5.6
Guiding camera:Lunatico Astronomia QHY5
Focal reducer:Meade f6.3 focal reducer/field flattener
Software:PHD Guiding, Pixinsight LE, Deepskystacker
Filter:Astronomik CLS Clip CLS clip-in
Accessory:MEADE Autostar 497
Resolution: 3258x2145
Dates:June 11, 2015, June 12, 2015
Frames:
Astronomik CLS Clip CLS clip-in: 33x140" ISO800
Astronomik CLS Clip CLS clip-in: 50x150" ISO800
Integration: 3.4 hours
Darks: ~10
Flats: ~10
Bias: ~10
Avg. Moon age: 24.67 days
Avg. Moon phase: 24.57%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 5.00
Temperature: 24.00
Astrometry.net job: 676304
RA center: 14h 3' 9"
DEC center: +54° 20' 6"
Pixel scale: 0.979 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -178.609 degrees
Field radius: 0.531
Locations: MPC - K09 / Observatori Lliçà d'Amunt, Lliçà d'Amunt, Barcelona, Spain
M101, the Pinwheel galaxy.
M101 is a face-on galaxy at 26 million light years in the constellation Ursa Major.
Is one of biggest galaxy in the neighborhood of our Milky Way, more than double size of this and very rich in gaz and high star generation.
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