Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, Georg N. Nyman
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Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy

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Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, Georg N. Nyman
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Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy

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This is one of the best known galaxies and a "Must-do" target. But this particular image was taken with a very special telescope - an Officina Stellare 700mm with a QHY600m camera - but the subs are unfortunately only in Bin4 available, which means that part of the resolving power of that combination was left unused. Bin 2 would have been the right binning option - IMO.

However, wonderful details which I processed in PixInsight and Photoshop...hope you like it.

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Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, Georg N. Nyman