Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5457
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M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy in RGB, Simon Todd
M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy in RGB
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M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy in RGB

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M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy in RGB, Simon Todd
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M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy in RGB

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M101 / NGC5457 or most commonly known as the Pinwheel Galaxy is a face on spiral galaxy in Ursa Major and has a distance of around 21 million light years from Earth.

The QHY183M picks up quite a lot of the Ha detail in this galaxy without me having to image separate Ha Filter data

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M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy in RGB, Simon Todd