By Hassan Dadashi . arani | 2022-05-03
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On 04/27/2022 by Ryan Walsh| Leslie, Michigan, United States
This was a fun image to capture with a long focal length telescope.
The Whirlpool Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located about 31 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is near the end of the "handle" of the Big Dipper.
This galaxy is interacting with another nearby galaxy, NGC 5195.
Celestron C9.25 telescope (Non-EdgeHD)
ZWO asi2600mc pro camera
SkyWatcher AZ-EQ6 Pro equatorial mount
Celestron Off-Axis Guider
Celestron F/6.3 reducer
ZWO asi224mc guide camera
133 x 3-minute light frames captured over the course of two nights (4/21/22, and 4/27/22) from my backyard. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker (along with 30 dark/flat/bias frames) and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop.
