Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  HD117815  ·  IC 4263  ·  IC 4277  ·  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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The Whirlpool galaxy Messier 51 (M51, NGC 5194, Tam Rich
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The Whirlpool galaxy Messier 51 (M51, NGC 5194

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The Whirlpool galaxy Messier 51 (M51, NGC 5194, Tam Rich
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The Whirlpool galaxy Messier 51 (M51, NGC 5194

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The Whirlpool galaxy Messier 51 (M51, NGC 5194 Discovered 1773 by Charles Messier
 located in the constellation of Canes Venatici which can be seen using a pair of binoculars.

First of all, my apologies to all my friends and followers for the last 7 months in which I have not been on Astrobin , this is due to other commitments.

I have got some new equipment back in November 2021 Zwo ASIair Plus.
120 mm Mini + 30 mm f/4 Guide Scope. ZWO EAF Electronic Automatic Focuser 5V.

My new Workflow
1. Blink. 2. Script Batch processing Weighted Batch Pre-processing script v2.4.5.  3. Separate RGB Image Inspection Statistics. 4. Linear Fit Channel Combination.
5. Dynamic Crop
6. Dynamic Background Extraction (Division and Subtraction).
7. Photo metric Colour Calibration.
8. Histogram Transformation.  9. Curves Transformation.
10 .NoiseXTerminator. 11StarXTerminator.
12. Curves Transformation. 13. Colour Saturation.
14. Histogram Transformation.
15. Pixel Math. 16. Script  EZ Star reduction.17. Histogram Transformation. 18. Curves Transformation.19 SCNR.

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The Whirlpool galaxy Messier 51 (M51, NGC 5194, Tam Rich