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Whirlpool Galaxy M51, astropical
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Whirlpool Galaxy M51

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Whirlpool Galaxy M51, astropical
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Whirlpool Galaxy M51

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Nothing to show off with, just my little 6-inch and Photoshop CS2 world, but to date my best galaxy :-)

Still plenty of homework to do with post-processing, autoguiding, image noise control and collimation, if clouds would only let me. Therefore, this DSLR image is cropped from 6000 to 4000 pixels to remove the artifacts of imperfection, such as coma, egg-shaped and trailing stars, and of course noise, the latter best being taken care of during image acquisition.

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  • Whirlpool Galaxy M51, astropical
    Original
  • Whirlpool Galaxy M51, astropical
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  • Final
    Whirlpool Galaxy M51, astropical
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B

Description: Re-processed and cropped.

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C

Description: Wide version.

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Whirlpool Galaxy M51, astropical