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

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 Galaxy 12" SCT portrait

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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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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	9643843
PixInsight job	HCO89MWP17V8AVKV6ERVGY3A0X5JXBB2
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	13h29m53s.600
RA (top/left)	13h28m57s.720
RA (top/right)	13h29m11s.955
RA (bottom/right)	13h30m48s.787
RA (bottom/left)	13h30m34s.235

Dec (center)	+47°12′33″.55
Dec (top/left)	+47°24′19″.74
Dec (top/right)	+46°59′07″.69
Dec (bottom/right)	+47°00′44″.45
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°25′55″.54

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