M101

Taken 20100306.

 

Messier 101, a spiral galaxy in Ursa Major.

 

Use the original image size to scroll around to find small background galaxies as well as globular clusters within M101.

 

Telescope: PlaneWave CDK 12.5

Camera: Apogee U16M

Mount: Celestron CGE Pro

Guide method: Astrodon Monster MOAG

Guide camera: Lumenera Skynyx 2.0m

Guide software: MetaGuide

 

Image scale 0.73"/pixel.

 

Subframes:

26x600s L

9x300s R,G,B

9x600s HA

 

Acquisition software: MaximDL

Processing software: custom, MaximDL, ImagesPlus, PhotoShop CS4

 

Original image link at:

www.paquettefamily.ca/astro/20100306_m101_crop_big3.jpg

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