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Pinwheel Galaxy M101, Justin Hendrickson
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Pinwheel Galaxy M101

Revision title: Pinwheel Galaxy M101

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Pinwheel Galaxy M101

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This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy is the result of 6 nights of imaging, and I consider it to be my first legitimate deep space project. I ended up with about 24 hours of exposures on this target and this is a calibrated stack of just short of 16 hours worth of the best sub exposures, which took my budget laptop about 4 hours to stack, lol. The Pinwheel Galaxy is approximately 25 million light years away, and in the night sky, it’s situated just above the handle of the Big Dipper.

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Title: Pinwheel Galaxy M101

Description: Reprocessed July 16th, 2022

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Pinwheel Galaxy M101, Justin Hendrickson

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