Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4277  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51, Earle Waghorne
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M51

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M51, Earle Waghorne
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M51

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This was a different approach from the M106.

The lights were taken using ZWO 1600 mm cameras and LRGB filters on the 8" RC and 8" Quattro. The lights were 300 s exposures, around 90 Lum and 30 each for R, G and B.

The lights were combined in Astro Pixel Processor and the combined image processed in Pixinsight. The image was cropped at the integration stage in APP because of the different fields of view of the two scopes.

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M51, Earle Waghorne