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Picture No 145. Courtesy of Eric Walker.
Year: 2007

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M51 and NGC 5195

This image, taken on (Friday 13th April no less) captures the spiral galaxy M51 in Ursa Major along with galaxy NGC 5195. It is thought that the interaction between the two galaxies caused the irregular shape of NGC 5195 and has created areas of star formation within M51.

The image was captured using a Meade LX50 8" SCT telescope with f3.3 focal reducer, Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro, and Meade AutoStar Envisage software. Images processed using FITS Liberator in Adobe Photoshop CS, and Neatimage. A Haartman mask was used to achieve perfect focus.
Picture added on 14 April 2007.

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what were the exposure times, was it a monocrome image or colour, any filters.

I would like to know because it is good and this would help others trying the same.

Thanks
Added by Jeremy R on 19 April 2007.

this image is a LRGB composite

if you visit Eric's Astronomy Blog via the link below you will find other images with the capture & process details

Added by Eric on 29 April 2007.

If you found this interesting, have a look at this group of pictures.
Messier Objects

For more information on this subject see the following website.
Eric's Astronomy Blog.

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