M 101 - Pinwheel Galaxy (CCDMike)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: M 101 · NGC 5447 · NGC 5449 · NGC 5450 · NGC 5451 · NGC 5453 · NGC 5455 · NGC 5457 · NGC 5461 · NGC 5462 · NGC 5471 · NGC 5473 · NGC 5477 · PGC 214207 · PGC 2452243 · PGC 2452513 · PGC 2452936 · PGC 2453053 · PGC 2454191 · PGC 2455022 · PGC 2456753 · PGC 2456843 · PGC 2456975 · PGC 2457015 · PGC 2457151 · PGC 2457777 · PGC 2459353 · PGC 2462689 · PGC 2464645 · PGC 2468609 · And 35 more.

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M 101 - Pinwheel Galaxy

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M 101 - Pinwheel Galaxy

Another target from my "collimation night".

I thought I would give it a try and was surprised to get such a result. But the gods of astrophotography were with me that evening with a beautiful transparency and good visibility (which is not very often the case at my location).

I am still struggling with the color balance in APP, so the whole image looks a bit too turquoise, but I am not experienced enough to fight against this tendency of ASI 294, which makes the colors either magenta or turquoise.

I hope you like it anyway ;-)

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Astrometry.net job	3422455
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RA (center)	14h03m07s.82
RA (top/left)	14h08m57s.29
RA (top/right)	13h57m17s.96
RA (bottom/right)	13h57m27s.72
RA (bottom/left)	14h08m47s.98

Dec (center)	+54°22′10″.9
Dec (top/left)	+54°55′50″.4
Dec (top/right)	+54°55′49″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+53°47′27″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+53°47′29″.6

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