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Faiz Ahmad
Virginia, USA

08/29/2020
10:30 pm

Equipment Details:

f/7 ED APO Triplet Refractor, Canon 80D Mod.

Post-processing Details:

Stacked and stretched.

Image Details:

The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, and NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Its distance is estimated to be 23 million light-years away from Earth.

Final version will come later...clear skies...