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Brian Maurer
Los Angeles, CA, USA
06/01/2019

Equipment Details:

AstroTech 10" RC Truss Tube on Celestron CGE Pro
ZWO ASI1600MM with LRGB Astodon filters

Post-processing Details:

PixInsight was used thru the combination and noise reduction, then final clean up in Photoshop.

Image Details:

Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy
This galaxy is nearly double the diameter of the Milky Way and is located 25 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, M101 has an apparent magnitude of 7.9.