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Messier 101

Image Description and Details : Location: Upper Austria
Date taken: April 2022
Distance: 20 million light years
Diameter: 170,000 light years
Exposure: RGB each 40 x 300 sec.
Luminance: 245 x 150 sec.
H-Alpha: 45 x 900 sec
Total: 31.4 hrs

Calibration: BIAS / Flats / DarkFlats
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R PRO
Telescope: Lacerta Fotonewton 250/1000
Corrector: Lacerta GPU coma corrector
Filter: Antlia LRGB-V Pro
Antlia 3nm Pro H-Alpha
Camera: QHY268m @ Gain 0 / 56 at -15°C
Guiding: QHY OAG with QHY5III462c and PHD2
Software: APP / Photoshop CC

Copyright: Daniel Nimmervoll

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April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter April 2022, 2022 Jason Matter

M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy

Image Description and Details : Celestron EDGE HD 8"
Ioptron CEM60
ZWO ASI 2600MM
Baader CMOS Filters
Pleiades Pixinsight

H-alpha: 14x600" (2h 20')
H-alpha: 15x1200" (5h)
Blue: 20x180" (1h)
Blue: 15x500" (2h 5') (gain: 100.00)
Green: 20x180" (1h)
Green: 16x500" (2h 13' 20")
Red: 21x180" (1h 3')
Red: 16x500" (2h 13' 20")
Luminance: 62x500" (8h 36' 40")
Integration time: 25h 31' 20"

Copyright: David Quiles Amato

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Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy

Image Description and Details :

A spiral galaxy 21 million light-years away in Ursa Major. It is evaluated containing a trillion of stars and it is estimated twice the size of our own galaxy. The image is taken with a SCT C8 and SX694 mono camera in RGB (4 hours per filter). Processed by Pixinsight.



Copyright: Copyright: David James

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