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Photography

moonshinegnomie

(2,487 posts) Mon May 15, 2023, 11:45 AM May 2023

M51 the whirlpool galaxy

ive was using a trial subscription to telescope.live that i decided was worth paying for. basically they have a set of professional (super expensive scopes) that are used to shoot pretty much anything in the night sky (except planets and teh moon). they then send you the data for you to process however you wish.
I used 2 hours of data from a 27.5" scope in spain. it was a set of 2 minute exposures shot using RGB filters since the camera is monochrome.

I stacked the data and processed it in pixinsight and photoshop for the final image