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M101 PinWheel Galaxy with many distant galaxies, Colm O'Dwyer
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M101 PinWheel Galaxy with many distant galaxies

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M101 PinWheel Galaxy with many distant galaxies, Colm O'Dwyer
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M101 PinWheel Galaxy with many distant galaxies

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This is data taken with the Epsilon 130D over 1.5 yrs ago that was rescued from a hard drive and processed now with a framing to show the fainter spiral arms and the many deep field distant galaxies and galaxy clusters, among some large nearby colorful stars.

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    M101 PinWheel Galaxy with many distant galaxies, Colm O'Dwyer
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Description: With Noise Xterminator (PS version) on non-linear image with 3 hrs of data from the 115 mm refractor. Stacking together made stars look worse around the galaxy (pinched optics on the refractor and dark wedges) so I used crops and overlaid in PS using 40% opacity with two layers, one as color and the other as luminosity. Background blending not as good as a averaged multiscope stack, but lesser of two evils etc.

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M101 PinWheel Galaxy with many distant galaxies, Colm O'Dwyer