M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy

New Messier object captured! M101. I was planning to do 4 hours on this target, but my wife fell asleep in the trunk of the car after 2 hours so I decided to cut it short 😂

My main goal was to have NGC 5474 in the same frame. This dwarf galaxy is tearing the arms of M101, which is one of the reasons why the Pinwheel Galaxy is not symmetrical.

 

I made a video of the entire capture, you can see it at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvxSCWAiZpY

 

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Details:

24x6min

20 darks

20 bias

Canon t3i

ISO 800

Orion 8" Astrograph f/3.9

Atlas EQ-G

Baader MPCC Mark III Coma Corrector

SSAG

Done