Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5451  ·  NGC 5455  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5471
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M101, Pinwheel Galaxy, mhtandy
M101, Pinwheel Galaxy
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M101, Pinwheel Galaxy

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M101, Pinwheel Galaxy, mhtandy
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M101, Pinwheel Galaxy

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Another year, and another try at the Pinwheel. We're in a weather pattern now with beautiful, clear skies during the day, and then clouds creeping in almost every evening. I was able to capture this image on one of the better nights, but still had to throw out a bunch of subs due to clouds. I'd like to add some H-alpha (dual narrowband filter) data to this when the weather cooperates.

This is my first try at using the color and saturation tools during GHS stretch, rather than in Photoshop as I had been doing. For some reason, it seemed to bring out more natural-looking color than the Photoshop method.

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Description: Added ~4 hrs dual-narrowband data for H-alpha regions and cropped

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