Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4277  ·  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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M51 Whirlpool, Carl Weber
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M51 Whirlpool

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M51 Whirlpool

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Description

I thought I'd share one of my early test images. I was trying different combinations of temporary spacers and most importantly finding a field flattener that my new scope was happy with. I didn't post this before but I figured now why not?

The flattener used was made by Explore Scientific specifically for my telescope. It did not produce the stars I felt were acceptable. The filters were a generic set of RGB's from Astronomik that I won in a raffle. They have been replaced with a full set of Chroma's.

It's an HaRGB stack.

48x300 sec Red

40x300 sec Blue

32x300 sec Green

20x300 sec Ha

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C

Description: Tried to clean up an old image.

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D

Description: Took advantage of all the rainy weather to revisit an old image. This is a HaRGB

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M51 Whirlpool, Carl Weber