Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4277  ·  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool galaxy
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Mat
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy

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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy

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Description

Ok, here's my third autoguided pic with the MGEN... M51 is a classic that I already tried to image without guiding last summer ... this is real fun now, as I only had to reject 4 frames due to somewhat high FWMH, but not due to guiding ;-)

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  • M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Mat
    Original
  • M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Mat
    C
  • M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Mat
    D
  • M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Mat
    E
  • Final
    M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Mat
    G

C

Description: Cropped to see more detail easily

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D

Description: Restacked (without star artefacts caused by superfluous hot pixel removal in DSS) and reprocessed more aggressively

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E

Description: (Cropped)

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G

Description: (Hopefully) last try to arrive at a reasonable compromise between detail, lights and (low signal) noise ;-)

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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Mat