M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy - First Attempt

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M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy - First attempt
Taken by Richard Lighthill on June 30, 2014 @ La Pine, Oregon, USA

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I am becoming a believer in stacking images! This is the result of 38 5-second shotos that individually showed nothing but a faint smudge of the galaxy core. I used a Canon t3i, 3200 iso, prime focus on a C8 orange, with a Celestron focal reducer. Stacked in Lynkeos.

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http://lapineobservatory.blogspot.com/2014/07/whirlpool-galaxy-circumpolar-stars.html

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