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Pinwheel Galaxy M101
The
Pinwheel Galaxy
(also known as
Messier 101
,
M101
or
NGC 5457
) is a face-on
spiral galaxy
21 million
light-years
(6.4
megaparsecs
)
[3]
away from Earth in the
constellation
Ursa Major
.
Planewave CDK17 F4.5, ZWO ASI2600MC Duo, Paramount MEII mount with absolute encoders. Unguided 2 hour image with N.I.N.A. at Desert Astro Observatory in Sierra Vista Dark skies. 5/28/24 Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.