Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4277  ·  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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Whirlpool Galaxy - M51, Howard Trottier
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Whirlpool Galaxy - M51

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Whirlpool Galaxy - M51

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This was the very first "test" target that I acquired using my new "Final Frontier Telescope", which was installed at the Sierra Remote Observatories at the end of June. This is the result of only 140 minutes of exposures (60 minutes luminance, 80 minutes RGB, all unbinned), taken over 4 nights in mid-July. I reduced the image size for final presentation by 50%, since I was still experimenting with auto guiding and dithering, and since the optical collimation and mount tracking were still being optimized -- so this was definitely early days! The final plate scale is about 0.93"/pixel, and the physical image size after cropping is about 31' x 28'.

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Whirlpool Galaxy - M51, Howard Trottier