M51

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March 27, 2017 at 5:39 pm

Lee Phillips

Kent

Atik 314L Mono + CLS filter
Celestron C8 + 0.63 reducer working @ f5.9
15 x 10 min exposures

Messier 51 Luminance image

2017-03-25T00:00:00

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