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Rome and Rimini, Italy
09:00 pm
RIG1:
ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Skywatcher 130PDS f5 with 1X coma corrector
Optolong L-Pro and L-eNhance filters
Skywatcher EQM-35 Pro
RIG2:
TS Photoline 60ED
ZWO ASI715MC
Svbony CLS and Optolong L-eNhance filters
Skywatcher EQM-35 Pro
RIG3:
ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Skywatcher 200PDS f5 with 1X coma corrector
Optolong L-Pro and L-eXtreme filters
Skywatcher EQ6R Pro
Pixinsight and Photoshop
- 2 astrophotographers 500km away (Andrea Iorio and Fernando Linsalata)
- 3 rigs with 3 different sampling resolutions
- Approximately 22 hours of RGB
- About 18 hours of Ha
The Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as M101 or NGC 5457, is a face-on spiral galaxy located 21 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. M101 is a large galaxy, with a diameter of 170,000 light-years and it has around a trillion stars.
M101 has a high population of Halpha regions, many of which are very large and bright. These regions, red spots in the image, are ionized by large numbers of extremely bright and hot young stars.
