Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4263  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 with 11 billion year old quasar, Andre van der Hoeven
M51 with 11 billion year old quasar
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M51 with 11 billion year old quasar, Andre van der Hoeven
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Imagery of M51 taken during the last two nights by myself (luminance) with a TEC-140 and imagery in RGB from beginning this month by Michael Van Doorn (www.dutchastrocolors.com) using his Hyperstar C11.

Telescopes: TEC-140 / C11 hyperstar

Camera's: QSI583ws / SXVR-H18

Exposure time: 14h (70x10 min L, 120 min total RGB)

The inverted image shows the inverted luminance. Several small galaxies are visible.

Also on the image is my furthest object ever recorded (see inverted image with quasar here: http://www.astro-photo.nl/deepsky/galaxies/m51-rgb-with-11-billion-years-old-quasar). This is a quasar at 11 billion lightyears distance. This means we see this object as it was only 2-3 billion lightyears after the Big Bang.

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