[APML] New Image M101

["Brian Lula" <brianl@polytecpi.com>]

Hi all,

Lots of superb M101 images posted lately inspired me this rainy weekend to finish up 
one set I took back in June 2002.  I concentrated on showing the 3 very faint arms 
hardly seen on images of this object on the opposite side of the huge assymetric arms 
most visible in images of this object. M101 is a surprisingly big object. I thought I 
framed it well initially but discovered it still wasn't in the right place to capture all it's 
extremities. The image field is 25 x 38 arc minutes.

The images were taken with my 20" f/5 Newt and FLI IMG6303E camera all in 2x2 bin 
mode in 2.9 arc sec seeing with 8 transparency skies. The image is an LRGB of 
96:36:36:36 minute respective exposures with an image scale of 1.5arcsec/pixel. 

The image is at: 

http://www.heavensgloryobservatory.com/Color_Jpegs/m101FRGB07-6303Eweb.jpg

Comments welcome.

Best regards, Brian






Brian Lula
Polytec PI, Inc.
(508) 832-3456
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