Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool galaxy
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Messier 51 - a four color Hubble High-Level Science Product mosaic, Dean Jacobsen
Messier 51 - a four color Hubble High-Level Science Product mosaic
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Messier 51 - a four color Hubble High-Level Science Product mosaic

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Messier 51 - a four color Hubble High-Level Science Product mosaic, Dean Jacobsen
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Messier 51 - a four color Hubble High-Level Science Product mosaic

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I assembled and processed this image from a four color mosaic created by the Hubble Heritage Team from data taken from the Hubble Telescope in January 2005 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument package. The filters used were F435W (B), F555W (V), F814W (I) and F658N (H-alpha).

Here is a link to the M 51 page if you want to look at the data or try processing the data yourself - https://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/m51/

The color assignments used in combining the data were: red - blend of 50% F658N + 50% F814W, green - F555W, blue - F435W.

The original image is about 11,000 x 8,000 pixels. The image I have uploaded is about 36% resolution.

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Messier 51 - a four color Hubble High-Level Science Product mosaic, Dean Jacobsen