Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool galaxy
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Messier 51, Chris Lasley
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Messier 51

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Messier 51, Chris Lasley
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Messier 51

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Description

First night live stacking with the ASI290MM and GSO 6" f/4 imaging Newtonian. The 6" works perfectly on the Evolution mount in Alt-Az mode.

Final stack was 201 x 4 second frames at a gain of 300 with Sharpcap Pro. Dark subtraction and sigma clipping was used. No coma corrector. 2x binning.

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Messier 51, Chris Lasley

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