Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool galaxy
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M51 - First Image, take 2, drmikevt
M51 - First Image, take 2
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M51 - First Image, take 2

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After posting my first image, I got some advice and went back to work. This is not a re-processing, but a further-processing. The original image (posted a couple days ago) was put through Kayron Mercieca's Light Vortex Astronomy tutorial on galaxy processing, in addition to some other tweaks. Conservatively, the results are 3 billion times better. All pre and post processing was done in PixInsight - my first go around with any image processing. I thought I was happy with the image before - now it looks like a green mess. I wonder what I'll think of this image in a couple months....

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M51 - First Image, take 2, drmikevt