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| | M51 - The Whirlpool galaxy Click here to enlarge
Description: It is a spiral galaxy located at Canes Venatici constellation. It is at about 30 million light years from us and it is interacting with its neightbour galaxy NGC 5195.
Lens: Newtonian Vixen R200SS + tele-extender F/stop: f7.5 Exposure: 12 x 600s L (binning 1x1), RGB: 8x5 min each channel in binning 2x2. Mount: Vixen Sphinx SXD Camera: Artemis 4021 ISO: Filters: LRGB astronomik filters Autoguide: WO Zenithstar 66 f/5.9 throught Meade DSI and PhD Guiding software Location: Montseny, Barcelona Date: February 8th, 2008 Processing: Aligned and calibrated with ImagesPlus, stacked with MaximDL and Postprocessed with PixInsight 1.0 |
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