Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5422  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5473  ·  The star 84UMa  ·  The star 86UMa
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Angel and pinwheel, Lorand Fenyes
Angel and pinwheel
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Angel and pinwheel

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Angel and pinwheel, Lorand Fenyes
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Angel and pinwheel

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Cosmic constellation: The exact day of 16 January 2016 had been already scheduled into my calendar a couple of months before as it was well-known that Comet C/2013 (Catalina) would be blasting through the Big Dipper near the line-of-sight to the M101 Pinwheel Galaxy on that very day.

http://fenyeslorand.hu/ustokos-a-goncolszekerben/

17 hours (2 panels mosaic)

17 x 600 Luminance (comet)

15 x 300 2×2 RGB (comet)

35 x 600 Luminance (galaxy)

24 x 600 2×2 RGB (galaxy)

49 x 240 ISO800 (star colors - Canon DSLR)

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Angel and pinwheel, Lorand Fenyes