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M101, Pinwheel Galaxy, NGC 5457, Greg Meyer MD
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M101, Pinwheel Galaxy, NGC 5457

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M101, Pinwheel Galaxy, NGC 5457, Greg Meyer MD
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M101, Pinwheel Galaxy, NGC 5457

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This galaxy is about 21 million light-years away with a diameter of 170,000 light-years. It has around 1 Trillion stars. Final got to shoot some galaxies from my darksky site in northern Arizona.  this is cropped quite a bit, but still came out nicely. 

Esprit 120mm
Qhy268M
Optolong LRGB filters
 9 hrs 15min of integration time.

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M101, Pinwheel Galaxy, NGC 5457, Greg Meyer MD

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