Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4627  ·  NGC 4631  ·  NGC 4656  ·  NGC 4657  ·  Whale Galaxy
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Whale Galaxy, Herbert W Hamber
Whale Galaxy
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Whale Galaxy

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Whale Galaxy, Herbert W Hamber
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Whale Galaxy

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Whale Galaxy

SVbony SV550 122mm APO triplet refractor on Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro mount, Risingcam Sony IMX571 26Mp camera.

Natural color, no filters.

Total time  29 min, 15sec subs.

No guiding, no apps, no gadgets, optical polar alignment, manual focus with Bhatinov mask. No added or removed stars, no re-colored stars, no re-shaped stars.

Images stacked in DSS and minimally edited in Gimp.

At the University of California Steele/Burnand Desert Research Center (SBDRC) in Borrego Springs, Calif.

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Whale Galaxy, Herbert W Hamber