Wallpaper author:
Bernard Miller
06 Jul 2021
M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy
This is an image of M101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. It is a face-on spiral galaxy about 21 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is about 170000 light in diameter with over a trillion stars, making it about twice the size of the Milky Way.
Dataset from which the image was processed
M101
13 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Galaxy
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 210.8024 Dec 54.3488
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Northern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Spain
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................27 Dec 2019 - 11 Feb 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 211 | 3h42m | 63 |
| Blue | 150 | 2h38m | 63 |
| Green | 143 | 2h30m | 63 |
| Red | 153 | 2h38m | 62 |
| Halpha | 29 | 30m | 62 |