Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4277  ·  IC 4278  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy 12" SCT portrait, Anthony (Tony) Johnson
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy 12" SCT portrait

Revision title: Sharpened

M51 Whirlpool Galaxy 12" SCT portrait, Anthony (Tony) Johnson
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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy 12" SCT portrait

Revision title: Sharpened

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Just a beautiful galaxy, one of my favorites. After stacking in AstroPixelProcessor and doing the initial edit in PixInsight, we moved the file over to a 19 year old MacPro G5 with Photoshop CS4 on it and did the final edits. Believe it or not Photoshop works better on that computer with a dedicated video card as opposed to my MacBook Pro with shared memory. I always have difficulty getting the sky background right on my MacBook. So I decided to resurrect my old G5 that I bought brand new back in 05 and use it hooked up to a 40" monitor I have. The MacBook's video won't drive the monitor with Photoshop running. Amazing what old tech will do that was built right, even though my MacBook is ancient as well. The G5 won't do much, but Photoshop still works.

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