Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4263  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  NGC 5198  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy, Aaron Wasserman
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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy

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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy

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M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy! The Whirlpool Galaxy is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. It is about 31 million light-years away from Earth!

This image is a composite of 7 hours of LRGB data under Bortle 6 skies on a Zenithstar 73 with an ASI1600MM pro camera.

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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy, Aaron Wasserman