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One of my favourite beauties in the night sky :) The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) is 31 million light years away and 100,000 light years across. It’s now known that this is actually two galaxies interacting, as you can see. The larger of the two is NGC5194 and the smaller is NGC5195.

I already have this one in my gallery, but thought I’d post another as it was taken with a different, more narrow-field telescope, plus it’s a bit better :) See here….[link]

I know it looks a little purple, but found increasing the levels in the red and blue channel revealed more detail!!

This was taken in March with a C9 and Canon 350D.
50 images
60 second exposures
ISO 1600
Deepsky Stacker for stacking flats, darks, offsets and lights
Photoshop for final tweaking

Cheers!!!!! :D

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:iconceeja:
Nice!! And this one is better then the other one!! Great shot!
:iconceeja:
Nice!! And this one is better then the other one!! Great shot!
:iconwyzzef:
Wow! Very lovely galaxy; I haven't heard and seen a double galaxy, awesome!!!
It makes me bealive in the possibility that in the middle of galaxies there was a very great star wich became into a black hole super masive; like a binary star but biggest!!!
+fav!!
:icondjberry:
Superb!

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:iconchrissyo:
Very nice! :) Great capture!

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:iconkokone:
Nice, nice, longer exposures next time, will reveal more detail I think. And maybe use a coldpack to keep the camera cool, you get less noise that way :)

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:iconkokone:
Nice, nice, longer exposures next time, will reveal more detail I think. And maybe use a coldpack to keep the camera cool, you get less noise that way :)

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Wish I could speak in just one sweep
What you are and what you mean to me
Instead I mumble randomly
You stand by and enlighten me
:iconuniversus88:
Wow ! Respect , its wonderful !

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