Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  HD122471  ·  HD122865  ·  M 101  ·  NGC 5422  ·  NGC 5447  ·  NGC 5449  ·  NGC 5450  ·  NGC 5451  ·  NGC 5453  ·  NGC 5455  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5462  ·  NGC 5471  ·  NGC 5473  ·  NGC 5474  ·  NGC 5477  ·  NGC 5484  ·  Pinwheel galaxy
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M101 Widefield, Kristopher McGinnis
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M101 Widefield

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M101 Widefield

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M101 (also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy) is a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major with a diameter of 170,000 light-years and containing around a trillion stars.

I'm not really happy with this processing attempt and will be working on the data over the coming days to get a revision completed. With a bit over 22 hours of total integration time this was definitely a huge learning experience. If anyone has some good processing tips and tricks or just general knowledge send me a message. I would love to discuss.

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