Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4263  ·  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5169  ·  NGC 5173  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  NGC 5198  ·  NGC 5229  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy and Friends, Patrick Manley
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy and Friends

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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy and Friends

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Taken with Stellarvue SVX102T Refractor with a ZWO ASI2600MC Pro Color Camera.   This image includes 1.8 hours of integration time.  During this session I was trying out the ASI2600MC Pro camera just for fun.    I was also working on zoning in polar alignment and setting up autoguiding on the same telescope.  I actually had to throw out about half of the frames as the mount wasn't balanced the right way as well.  I wanted to practice my workflow for processing images with the color camera, and this limited data set turned out to do the trick.

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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy and Friends, Patrick Manley