Autore dello sfondo:
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 da cui è stata elaborata l'immagine
M101
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- Tipo di obiettivo............................................................................................................................Galaxy
- Fotocamera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Coordinate dell'obiettivo............................................................................................................................RA 210.8024 Dec 54.3488
- Emisfero............................................................................................................................Northern
- Posizione del telescopio............................................................................................................................Spain
- Evento transitorio............................................................................................................................No
- Osservato il............................................................................................................................27 Dec 2019 - 11 Feb 2022
Filtro | Exp. media (s) | Esposizione totale | Sottoframe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 211 | 3h42m | 63 |
| Blue | 150 | 2h38m | 63 |
| Green | 143 | 2h30m | 63 |
| Red | 153 | 2h38m | 62 |
| Halpha | 29 | 30m | 62 |