Never let you go: Messier 51 and NGC 5195, Remote, Nerpio ESP
I added colour data from a previous session with a smaller scope - T3 in April 2016.
Close-up of interacting galaxies, large M51 and small NGC 5195 - NGC 5195 has sprayed several plumes of stars into surrounding space.
Distant edge-on spiral galaxy, IC 4277, looks almost dull beside the exuberance of this interacting pair which are also in the Arp catalogue of interacting galaxies (Arp 85).
No one is quite sure how to classify NGC 5195 - it seems to resemble an elliptical galaxy or a spiral core with its disc ripped off which is understandable.
Source: Annals of the Deep Sky, J Kanipe and D Webb, Volume 3. Willmann-Bell Publishers 2016.
17 x 10 min subs taken remotely from Nerpio in Spain with iTelescope T7.
46 x 5 min subs taken remotely from Mayhill, New Mexico with iTelescope T3.
Stacked, drizzled and deconvoluted in PixInsight 1.8 and then high pass/overlay in Photoshop.
Never let you go: Messier 51 and NGC 5195, Remote, Nerpio ESP
I added colour data from a previous session with a smaller scope - T3 in April 2016.
Close-up of interacting galaxies, large M51 and small NGC 5195 - NGC 5195 has sprayed several plumes of stars into surrounding space.
Distant edge-on spiral galaxy, IC 4277, looks almost dull beside the exuberance of this interacting pair which are also in the Arp catalogue of interacting galaxies (Arp 85).
No one is quite sure how to classify NGC 5195 - it seems to resemble an elliptical galaxy or a spiral core with its disc ripped off which is understandable.
Source: Annals of the Deep Sky, J Kanipe and D Webb, Volume 3. Willmann-Bell Publishers 2016.
17 x 10 min subs taken remotely from Nerpio in Spain with iTelescope T7.
46 x 5 min subs taken remotely from Mayhill, New Mexico with iTelescope T3.
Stacked, drizzled and deconvoluted in PixInsight 1.8 and then high pass/overlay in Photoshop.