Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool galaxy
M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy, 



    
        

            Rick Breen
M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy

M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy, 



    
        

            Rick Breen
M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy

Acquisition details

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 2069489

RA center: 13h29m54s.10

DEC center: +47°1138

Pixel scale: 0.441 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 132.681 degrees

Field radius: 0.212 degrees

Resolution: 1824x1110

File size: 1.4 MB

Locations: Home, Middlefield, Massachusetts, United States

Data source: Backyard

Description

M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, taken from my backyard.

54 subframes 6 minutes each, using R,G,B filters on a QSI 683 and a PlaneWave CDK 12.5.

No auto-guiding needed, I used Software Bisque's TheSkyX on Paramount MX+.

Post Processing is by Barry Yomtov using PixInsight and Photoshop. Thanks Barry!

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M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy, 



    
        

            Rick Breen