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Messier 51 [Robotic, Nerpio, ESP] [Explored]
Ive added to some images taken back in 2017 so that this is 54 x 10 minute subexposures of Messier 51 in Canes Venatici.
Im planning to take some RGB and hydrogen alpha to produce a colour image so this is really very much a preliminary post.
Taken with iTelescope T7 from Nerpio in Spain. The larger Messier 51 is interacting gravitationally with smaller NGC 5195.
A rich spiral pattern of dark dust clouds reaches deep into the galactic core where a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus is located - a dust ring obscures the central accretion disk and supermassive black hole from view.
A small edge on spiral galaxy IC 4277 is seen beneath NGC 5195 and a bright bar-like irregular galaxy, IC 4278 lies a third of the way along the bottom left.
Messier 51 [Robotic, Nerpio, ESP] [Explored]
Ive added to some images taken back in 2017 so that this is 54 x 10 minute subexposures of Messier 51 in Canes Venatici.
Im planning to take some RGB and hydrogen alpha to produce a colour image so this is really very much a preliminary post.
Taken with iTelescope T7 from Nerpio in Spain. The larger Messier 51 is interacting gravitationally with smaller NGC 5195.
A rich spiral pattern of dark dust clouds reaches deep into the galactic core where a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus is located - a dust ring obscures the central accretion disk and supermassive black hole from view.
A small edge on spiral galaxy IC 4277 is seen beneath NGC 5195 and a bright bar-like irregular galaxy, IC 4278 lies a third of the way along the bottom left.