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Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), Andy  Brown
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Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

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Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

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Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)

As I don't have a scope at the moment, until it returns from Takahashi France, I decided to reprocess some old data of M51 taken with my Canon 600mm prime lens before I bought my scope. I hadn't integrated the Ha data from the L-eXtreme session with the broadband before so I was interested to see how much it added to the image. The stars are not great, an artefact of the aperture blades in the lens but I'm happy how the galaxy looks.

This is definitely a target I will revisit in the future.

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Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), Andy  Brown

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