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Whirlpool Galaxy



 

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Whirlpool Galaxy. Click image for full size version.

 


Common Name Whirlpool Galaxy
Formal Name M 51
Date 4/8/2005
Constellation Ursa Major
Location Ionia, NY
Equipment Nexstar 11GPS, SBig 2000XM Camera/Filter Wheel at f/6.3
Temperature -25°C
Exposures
# Exp (sec) Filter Bin Net Time (hr)
5 300 Blue 1x1
5 300 Red 1x1
5 300 Green 1x1
11 300 Lum 1x1
Total 2.1 hrs
Processing Original Version:
Calibrated in CCDSoft
Aligned and Stacked (added) in Images Plus.
Adjusted Levels and Curves in Photoshop.

Reworked PixInsight Version:
Calibrated in CCDSoft
Adjusted in PixInsight using Harry Page's examples

Notes Same exposure data used in both cases. I just had a better sense of what to do in the PixInsight case. The reworked case happened a couple of years after the original image processing.

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