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  ·  Pinwheel galaxy
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Messier 101: The Pinwheel Galaxy, Sky Story
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Messier 101: The Pinwheel Galaxy

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Messier 101: The Pinwheel Galaxy, Sky Story
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Messier 101: The Pinwheel Galaxy

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This was my first light image with the Player One Ares-M camera.  It was mounted to a Celestron C8.  It was a brutally cold Canadian winter night at -30C, but as so often happens on such nights, the sky was crystal clear with great seeing.  While I was trying to shoot this, a Player One tech was online updating the firmware of my Phoenix filter wheel so it could function better in such extreme cold, so that night I could only shoot on the L channel.  I lifted the color from an old OSC image I shot of the Pinwheel Galaxy using an 81 mm Williams Optics APO refractor and added it to the L data.  For a first light image shot while maintenance was happening, I am pretty happy with it.

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Messier 101: The Pinwheel Galaxy, Sky Story