Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5422  ·  NGC 5447  ·  NGC 5449  ·  NGC 5450  ·  NGC 5451  ·  NGC 5453  ·  NGC 5455  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5462  ·  NGC 5471  ·  NGC 5473  ·  NGC 5474  ·  NGC 5477  ·  NGC 5484  ·  NGC 5485  ·  NGC 5486  ·  Pinwheel galaxy
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M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy, Doug Gray
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M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy

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M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy, Doug Gray
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M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy

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61mm of aperture makes it tough to bring out the detail in this beautiful target, but it was fun to find a few other galaxies in the wide field as I kept adding exposure time. I was on the fence about using the unlocked bin1 on the asi294mm, but the file sizes are a little intimidating. I used the simple drizzle upsampling in Siril, which seems to have helped.

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M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy, Doug Gray