Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5422  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5473  ·  NGC 5485
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy
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Description

M101 and friends 

Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain

www.pixelskiesastro.com

Lum 80 x 600s
Red 224 x 180s
Green 229 x 180s
Blue 170 x 180s
Ha 100 x 600s

61 Hours 9 mins in total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F5.3

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -20C

Image Scale: 2.08

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik Lum, Red, Green, Blue,Ha

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Voyager

Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC, StarXTerminator, StarNet v2, NoiseXTerminator, BlurXTerminator

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