M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy (James R Potts)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: IC 4263 · IC 4277 · IC 4278 · M 51 · NGC 5169 · NGC 5194 · NGC 5195 · NGC 5198 · PGC 2286797 · PGC 2288242 · PGC 2289559 · PGC 2289565 · PGC 2290293 · PGC 2290581 · PGC 2292105 · PGC 2293576 · PGC 2294282 · PGC 2294604 · PGC 2297248 · PGC 2297311 · PGC 2299047 · PGC 2299614 · PGC 2300341 · PGC 2302712 · PGC 2303602 · PGC 2790855 · PGC 3087449 · Whirlpool Galaxy

M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy

Here is the last of the images taken with my Sky Watcher 190MM Mak/Newt. I did not originally plan on capturing M51, but the first night clouds dictated only object pretty much straight up in the sky. I captured this over 4 nights as the low southern sky, which was my initial focus, was clouded out much of the week. But this is a beautiful galaxy and my wide FOV has lots of other galaxies to view. I also tried to capture of the Milky Way using a camera lens, these did not turn out as nice as I had hoped, so I still have some processing to do on these.

Not going to say a lot about this galaxy as most of you already know this target well that is about 28 million light years away.

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RA (center)	13h29m52s.535
RA (top/left)	13h29m59s.999
RA (top/right)	13h33m50s.263
RA (bottom/right)	13h29m44s.345
RA (bottom/left)	13h25m56s.802

Dec (center)	+47°11′46″.100
Dec (top/left)	+46°26′59″.20
Dec (top/right)	+47°31′20″.20
Dec (bottom/right)	+47°56′34″.13
Dec (bottom/left)	+46°51′44″.20

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