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Coathanger CR 399

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M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy) image

M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy)

Contains: Deep sky object
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This image was the result of post processing 26 exposures taken at ISO 1600 for 5 minutes each with a 130mm refractor and 1.6 extender. The exposures were captured on the night of April 30, 2021 and the seeing wasn't good. My tracking was a bit off as scintillation was an issue. This image was cropped a lot. Dithering was used and flat frames, dark frames and bias frames were all used in Deep Sky Stacker to assemble the images. The original post processed image was too saturated and I recently did another post processing attempt to redo the contrast and saturation.

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  • Mark Killion
  • Mark Killion
  • June 28, 2017