Messier 101 and Surroundings (Miguel Morales)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: M 101 · NGC 5422 · NGC 5457 · NGC 5474 · NGC 5485 · Pinwheel galaxy · The star 86 UMa

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Messier 101 and Surroundings

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Messier 101 and Surroundings

Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major, some 21 million light years (about 123,480,000,000,000 miles) away from Earth.

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Description: This image is made to have less bold and saturated colors, which gives a less striking and obtrusive appearance. It's not as "loud" and "in your face" as the previous example, but the closer crop in the previous example is more confined and invites on to search around and see what one can find.

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Description: This third rendition has combined two specific attributes of each of the previous images to produce what I feel is an even better image. Those two attributes are the composition of the first image with the less bold color saturation of the second image.

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RA (center)	14h03m18s.86
RA (top/left)	14h13m49s.28
RA (top/right)	13h52m54s.60
RA (bottom/right)	13h53m17s.50
RA (bottom/left)	14h13m14s.72

Dec (center)	+54°14′54″.5
Dec (top/left)	+55°09′47″.10
Dec (top/right)	+55°11′20″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+53°16′42″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+53°15′28″.6

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