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Messier 61 - Face-on Barred Spiral Galaxy in Virgo
One of the largest members of the Virgo Cluster, M61 is a starburst galaxy, i.e. it has an unusually high rate of star formation, with an active galactic nucleus that features a massive nuclear star cluster and a supermassive black hole. It is about 53 million light-years away from Earth.
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Filename: M61_20220522_LRGB2C.jpg
Album name: 27telp / Galaxies
Location and Date: OCA site near Anza, California - April 30, 2022
Equipment: William Optics FLT-132 refractor, Astro-Physics 1200GTO mount, ZWO ASI1600mm CMOS camera, Mini-Borg 50 guide scope, Starlight Express Ultrastar guide camera
Settings: 10 exposures @300 seconds each in Luminance, Red, Green, and Blue, bin 1x1
Notes: Software: Capture, Sequence Generator Pro; guiding, PHD2; Calibration and stacking, CCDStack2; Final processing - PixInsight 1.8.9 and Photoshop CC
Filesize: 1265 KiB
Date added: May 24, 2022
Dimensions: 3615 x 2641 pixels
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Software: Adobe Photoshop 23.3 (Windows)
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