M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy

Meade 8" LX200 SCT w/Pictor 416XTE at PF
4 light and 2 dark @ 2 minutes, unguided, -5 degC CCD temp
June 25, 2001

Six light frames were taken, but two were dropped due to image shift. The images had a lot of noise so the final looks much better at half resolution.

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