The Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101) and a Few Friends
Apr 13, 2024 12:17:35 #
The Pinwheel Galaxy is a face-on spiral galaxy about 170,000 light-years in diameter and probably contains in the order of a trillion stars, about double the size of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It is approximately 21 million light-years from Earth.
Captured with a Sony A7R V and Astro-Tech 65EDQ on an Evolution mount.
Shot 252x10sec. subs @ ISO3200.
Preprocessed in Lightroom. Aligned and stacked in PixInsight. Postprocessed in Lightroom/Photoshop.
I fought thin cloud/haze for most of the imaging session, obvious from the fuzzy stars, but still a reasonable night under the stars.
Enjoy!
bwa
Captured with a Sony A7R V and Astro-Tech 65EDQ on an Evolution mount.
Shot 252x10sec. subs @ ISO3200.
Preprocessed in Lightroom. Aligned and stacked in PixInsight. Postprocessed in Lightroom/Photoshop.
I fought thin cloud/haze for most of the imaging session, obvious from the fuzzy stars, but still a reasonable night under the stars.
Enjoy!
bwa
Apr 13, 2024 20:13:44 #
hey, Buana, it looks like the supernova in the one arm has run out of gas, no visible features of it show. When I shot this same galaxy just after the supernova went ballistic, it really showed its stuff. Now it is just like the other stars surrounding it.
Apr 13, 2024 20:30:05 #
my photo of the M101 with the supernova. June 17, 2023
RFB
RFB
Apr 13, 2024 23:40:35 #
Railfan_Bill wrote:
my photo of the M101 with the supernova. June 17, 2023
RFB
RFB
M101 has had several Supernovas. I was an hour late in discovering SN 2011fe in 2011. It was a bright one as well.
bwa
Apr 14, 2024 10:10:45 #
Apr 15, 2024 20:43:25 #
Looks great Brian!
Sometimes the skies just have to be contrary.
But it looks great to me.
Sometimes the skies just have to be contrary.
But it looks great to me.
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