Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
Pinwheel in a haystack, psychwolf
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Pinwheel in a haystack

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Pinwheel in a haystack

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Sometimes in a quest to find the details of a galaxy, it's important to take a step back and appreciate the context of it all.

Here we have the Pinwheel galaxy in an extremely wide angle view, stretching as far as Alkaid. Wide angle with a DSLR, Nikon d3300, about 30 stacked images for about 6 minutes of total exposure time. All the way to the right you'll see IC1029 to NGC 5687 on the bottom.

There is false color in here, but with a fair effort to balance closer to neutral, shot without a filter. Green had a lot of data including some of those spiral arms in the pinwheel.

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Pinwheel in a haystack, psychwolf

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