m51 of 23 March combined with a color image (Stefano Ciapetti)

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 of 23 March combined with a color image

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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m51 of 23 March combined with a color image

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Combination of 2 images - a mono image taken on the 20th of March and a color image taken on the 17th of March. Telescope and mount were Orion 250 F 3.9 and Ioptron CEM60EC. Camera was a QHY183M for mono and a modded Canon 600d for color.

Total integration about 14 hours. Subs were of 60 secs each one unguided for both images.

Aquisition, stacking and some processing (star elongation correction and deconvultion) with Astroart 7. Cosmetic and color combination with PS.

Thanks for looking

ps.:there is another image of M51 in my gallery that uses some of the data of included this image. I have choosen for this new image, only the data of the 20th of march and I have reprocessed everything from the beginning. Therefore I consider it as a new image and not a new version of that one.

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Description: Some color adjustment with PS.

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Description: color adjustment

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Low-Cost Astrophotography
ZWO ASI183/QHY183
Imagers of Italy
Suburban Astrophotography

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Astrometry.net job	4556404
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RA (center)	13h30m07s.741
RA (top/left)	13h30m35s.634
RA (top/right)	13h28m15s.400
RA (bottom/right)	13h29m40s.650
RA (bottom/left)	13h32m00s.337

Dec (center)	+47°16′02″.78
Dec (top/left)	+47°34′34″.40
Dec (top/right)	+47°15′44″.60
Dec (bottom/right)	+46°57′31″.80
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°16′14″.34

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