The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51, in a wide-field setting.
This is an LRGB composite with a little bit of Ha admixture from a total of 22 hours of exposures taken at the Deep Sky West Observatory.
| Exposure: | L 32 x 900sec, RGB (16,16,16) x 600sec, Ha 16 x 1800sec | Date: | 2016-04-10…2016-05-04 |
| Setup: | Takahashi FSQ106 EDXIII with QSI 683WSG-8 | Site: | Deep Sky West Observatory, NM, USA |
Tags: M51, NGC5194, NGC5195