Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  IC 4263  ·  M 51  ·  NGC 5194  ·  NGC 5195  ·  NGC 5198  ·  NGC 5229  ·  Whirlpool Galaxy
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The Whirlpool with tracker & dSLR, TStew
The Whirlpool with tracker & dSLR
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The Whirlpool with tracker & dSLR

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The Whirlpool with tracker & dSLR, TStew
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The Whirlpool with tracker & dSLR

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I just love M51, such a neat galaxy being able to see the interesting effects with nearby companion NGC 5195. For this galaxy I debated using my 2x extender with my 400mm lens , but decided to use the bare lens and drizzle for a larger view (but presented here downscaled back to almost original). After stretching a bit much to get some more detail the background was a bit noisy. I did make a few edits and some with much less noise but ultimately decided on the more noisy image. In the future I'll add more data to this to hopefully further reduce noise. Even with it a bit noisy I am really happy how it turned out using just a modest wildlife lens & camera on a tracker.

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The Whirlpool with tracker & dSLR, TStew