Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5422  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5473  ·  NGC 5474  ·  NGC 5477  ·  NGC 5485  ·  NGC 5486
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M101 and Friends (annotated), Don Walters
M101 and Friends (annotated)
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M101 and Friends (annotated)

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I wanted to try shooting this again, since the one I did last year was using a different camera, so I was just curious to see what it would do with my wide field camera.

I started shooting this in January with just a handful of frames. I didn't resume taking shots on this until April and May! So the January batch was done at -10C and the rest were at 0C since the temp warmed up so much.

The colors look so much better with this camera! I like how the H2 regions came out so nice and pink like they should be, whereas with my old camera, they were gray and subdued.

Also my first time using annotations in PI and couldn't figure out how to control the leader size. So they were a little too thin for my taste.

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M101 and Friends (annotated), Don Walters