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Messier M101 Pinwheel Galaxy A beautiful face on spiral galaxy located at a distance of about 27 million light years in the constellation of Ursa Major. At about 175,000 light years across it is nearly double the size of our own Milky Way. A total of 17 exposures of 5 minutes (badly guided) were used for this image. There is a bad dust bunny in the lower right middle which I'll get to grips with some day ! Link-words: Messier Galaxy

Messier M101 Pinwheel Galaxy

A beautiful face on spiral galaxy located at a distance of about 27 million light years in the constellation of Ursa Major. At about 175,000 light years across it is nearly double the size of our own Milky Way.

A total of 17 exposures of 5 minutes (badly guided) were used for this image. There is a bad dust bunny in the lower right middle which I'll get to grips with some day !

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Filename:M101-0XXLum300.jpg
Album name:RobertM / Messier Objects
Rating (1 votes):55555
Link-words:Messier / Galaxy
Image date, time and location:May 11th 2008 @ 22:30 in my garden at home in Orpington
Telescope aperture and focal ratio:C9.25 at approx F6.3
Camera and filters used:Starlight-Xpress SXV-H9 with Booded Neodymium filter for LPR
Processing applied:Calibrated/DDP stretched in MaximDL and mild processing in PS
Filesize:98 KiB
Date added:May 14, 2008
Dimensions:1392 x 1040 pixels
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