Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool galaxy
Messier 51- The Whirlpool Galaxy, Federico Pelliccia
Messier 51- The Whirlpool Galaxy
Powered byPixInsight

Messier 51- The Whirlpool Galaxy

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Here's a new image composition obtained from different data sources: Subaru,DSS, Hubble and some Amateur Data.

Hope you like it !

(Hubble image courtesy of Roberto Colombari)

Credits& copyrights : Federico Pelliccia, Subaru, Hubble, Roberto Colombari, DSS,ESO.

Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA).

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Messier 51- The Whirlpool Galaxy, Federico Pelliccia