Wallpaper author:
Ryan Voykin
20 Oct 2023
M51 - WhirlPool Galaxy
Working on HDR Multiscale Transform for a recent YT tutorial and M51 is a great target to use it on to enhance the core. It was a pleasure using data at this focal length on such a small but detailed target in LRGB
Dataset from which the image was processed
M51
9 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Galaxy
- Camera............................................................................................................................QHY 600M
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 202.4696 Dec 47.1953
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Northern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Spain
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................26 Mar 2023 - 17 Jul 2023
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 88 | 1h56m | 79 |
| Red | 158 | 3h28m | 79 |
| Green | 150 | 3h18m | 79 |
| Blue | 122 | 2h40m | 79 |
| Halpha | 82 | 1h46m | 78 |