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M51- The Whirlpool Galaxy
There are actually two interacting galaxies here; the smaller companion is NGC 5195, and the two have collided in the past, causing all kinds of woe and grief. They are about 25 million light years away.

M51- The Whirlpool Galaxy

There are actually two interacting galaxies here; the smaller companion is NGC 5195, and the two have collided in the past, causing all kinds of woe and grief. They are about 25 million light years away.




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Filename:M51-20130407c.jpg
Album name:27telp / Galaxies
Location and Date:OCA site near Anza, California, USA, 4/7/2013
Equipment:William Optics FLT-132 scope @f/7, QSI-583wsg CCD Camera, Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount, Borg 50mm guide scope, Starlight Xpress Lodestar guide camera
Settings:Luminance - 9 exposures @ 6 minutes each, bin 1x1; Red, Green and Blue - 7 @ 6 minutes each, bin 2x2
Notes:Captured with MaxIm DL 5.12, processed with CCDStack2 and Adobe Photoshop CS4
Filesize:611 KiB
Date added:Jun 17, 2019
Dimensions:1159 x 873 pixels
Displayed:18 times
Color Space:Uncalibrated
EXIF Offset:402
EXIF Version:version 2.31
Image Description:There are actually two interacting galaxies here; the smaller comanion is NGC 5195, and the two have collided in the past, They are about 25 million light years away.
Resolution Unit:Inch
Software:Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 8.3.1 (Windows)
X Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
Y Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
IPTC Title:M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
IPTC Copyright:J. L. Floyd
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