Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5447  ·  NGC 5449  ·  NGC 5450  ·  NGC 5451  ·  NGC 5453  ·  NGC 5455  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5462  ·  NGC 5471  ·  NGC 5477  ·  Pinwheel galaxy
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M101 and NGC 5477, Barry Flansburg
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M101 and NGC 5477

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M101 and NGC 5477, Barry Flansburg
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M101 and NGC 5477

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This is an image of the grand face-on spiral galaxy M101 and the smaller nearby galaxy NGC 5477 on the left in Ursa Major. It was taken over two nights, April 30 and May 1, 2024 from my backyard in the New Mexico Astronomy Village near Deming, New Mexico. It consists of 5.8 hours of RGB data plus 3.8 hours of Ha data taken through a Stellarvue SVX180T refractor telescope with a ZWO ASI6200MM camera. It has been cropped to highlight the galaxies.

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M101 and NGC 5477, Barry Flansburg