133 x 3-minute light frames captured over the course of two nights (4/21/22, and 4/27/22) from my backyard. Stacked in DeepSkyStacker (along with 30 dark/flat/bias frames) and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop.

This was a fun image to capture with a long focal length telescope.

The Whirlpool Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located about 31 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is near the end of the "handle" of the Big Dipper.
This galaxy is interacting with another nearby galaxy, NGC 5195.