| M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy |
| Object: M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy: A spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici. The estimated distance is approximately 37 million light years. M51 has a visual brightness of 8.4 (mag.) Telelscope: LX200 10" @ f/4 Camera: Starlight Xpress MX916, w/ SXV upgrade Guiding: SXV Guider through Stellarvue AT1010 @ f/6, piggybacked on LX200 Exposures: L=25 X 240s (100 min), 1x1 binned, RGB=12 X 240s (48 min each) Filters: Schuler LRGcBc Comments: Taken from home. Captured and processed with Astroart 3.0. Layers in Photoshop 7.0. I took the Lum on the first night and then RGB on second night. This was my second attempt with M51. The first attempt through the LX200. The image scale was ~2.33 arcsec/pix. |