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Deep-sky, lunar and aurora images captured from the back garden, one clear night at a time.
Pinwheel Galaxy
Leo Triplet
Sunflower Galaxy
Cygnus Wall
Elephant Trunk Nebula
Whirlpool Galaxy
Northern Lights
Bodes Galaxy
The Moon
Horsehead Nebula
Orion Nebula
The Moon
Whirlpool Galaxy
M51 · Canes Venatici ·
A face-on spiral caught mid-encounter with its smaller companion NGC 5195, which is slowly distorting its arms.
- Telescope
- William Optics Zenithstar 81 APO
- Camera
- Canon EOS 500D
- Palette
- RGB
- Barlow / reducer
- 0.8x
- Exposure
- 70 × 180s (3.5h)