Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4263  ·  IC 4277  ·  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  PGC 2289565  ·  PGC 2292105  ·  PGC 2294282  ·  PGC 2297311  ·  PGC 2299047  ·  PGC 2300341  ·  PGC 2790855  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy, Alex Ranous
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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy

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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy

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Description: Ok, new and improved, with BlurXTerminator. I didn't reprocess the whole image, just the Lum and reapplied it to my existing RGB. I found for galaxies, I had to dial back the non-stellar sharpening to about .6 or .7 to avoid obvious artifacts. I changed the cropping and rotation a bit while I was at it.

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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy, Alex Ranous