M101 on 2024-03-28 & 2024-04-02 THE PINWHEEL GALAXY
The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy located 21 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. M101 is a large galaxy, with a diameter of 170,000 light-years. By comparison, the Milky Way (Our Galaxy) has a diameter of 87,400 light-years. It is estimated that M101 has about 150 globular clusters, approximately the same number as the Milky Way.
This photo was taken in Kyle, Texas through a 6-inch f/4 Telescope, on a Sky-Watcher EQ6-R mount, with a ZWO ASI533MC PRO color camera. The processing was done in PixInsight. The total image acquisition time is: 09 hrs 12 min 00 sec.
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