Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4277  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Michael Lewis
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy

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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Michael Lewis
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy

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This final image was pulled from data that was cropped due to field rotation over a couple of nights and not-so-great guiding on night 2. I did have to crank up the saturation on the Galaxy to get those colors to show. I imaged it from my yard without an LP or broadband filter in a bortle 6/7 sky. 

You'll also notice that the brighter stars have some odd diffraction spikes. This appears to be an issue with the dew heater ring on the corrector plate of my Edge HD 8.

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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Michael Lewis