Wide Field M101 - A cosmic rip saw (jeff2011)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: M 101 · NGC 5422 · NGC 5457 · NGC 5473 · NGC 5474 · NGC 5485

Wide Field M101 - A cosmic rip saw, jeff2011

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Wide Field M101 - A cosmic rip saw

I was finally able to make it back out to the dark site to finish out galaxy season. M101 is always a challenge to process. It took me over a week to process until I came up with something I reasonably liked. The image was 2x drizzled but I ultimately decided to down sample it back to its original size. The stars were stretched using a script written by Chen Wu that is based on an iterative stretching and blending technique developed by Min Xie known as MMMTF.

Known as the Pinwheel, this galaxy rather reminds me of a circular rip saw blade spinning through space shredding anything in its path.

Lots of interesting small galaxies in this image including some real odd balls like NGC 5474, 5477, and 5486.

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