M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy ( Yannick Akar )

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: IC 4263 · IC 4278 · M 51 · NGC 5169 · NGC 5173 · NGC 5194 · NGC 5195 · NGC 5198 · Whirlpool galaxy

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M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy

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M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses: Explore Scientific ED APO 102mm f/7 FCD-1 CF HEX
Imaging Cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM Pro
Mounts: Sky-Watcher HEQ5 PRO
Filters: ZWO Blue · ZWO Green · ZWO Luminance · ZWO Red
Accessories: TS-Optics Photoline 2" 0.79x ED Reducer/Corrector (TSRed279)
Software: Adobe Photoshop · AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro (SGP) · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses: Omegon Microspeed guidescope 60mm
Guiding Cameras: RisingCam GCMOS1200KMB

Dates:: May 7, 2018 · May 8, 2018 · May 9, 2018
Frames:: ZWO Blue: 40×120″(1h 20′) -20°C bin 1×1
ZWO Green: 44×120″(1h 28′) -20°C bin 1×1
ZWO Luminance: 111×120″(3h 42′) -20°C bin 1×1
ZWO Red: 41×120″(1h 22′) -20°C bin 1×1
Integration:: 7h 52′
Darks:: 50
Flats:: 30
Bias:: 200
Avg. Moon age:: 22.52 days
Avg. Moon phase:: 46.04%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:: 8.00

RA center: 13h29m53s.26

DEC center: +47°11′41″.8

Pixel scale: 1.357 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: -89.415 degrees

Field radius: 0.838 degrees

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Resolution: 3617x2581

File size: 1.4 MB

Locations: Home Garden (Est. Sky Quality: 19.16), Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Data source: Backyard

The first DSO with my new set-up, the Whirlpool Galaxy in LRGB.

ZWO ASI1600MM/QHY163M
The refractors!

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RA (center)	13h29m53s.26
RA (top/left)	13h27m01s.55
RA (top/right)	13h27m01s.30
RA (bottom/right)	13h32m40s.75
RA (bottom/left)	13h32m49s.84

Dec (center)	+47°11′41″.8
Dec (top/left)	+47°52′46″.1
Dec (top/right)	+46°30′56″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+46°30′21″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°52′11″.5

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