Re: [APML] New Image M101

[Stuart Heggie <stuart.j.heggie@sympatico.ca>]

Brian, that's beautiful! There is a glow in the lower left corner of the 
frame - what is that? NGC5474 or an artifact? (or my monitor!)

Stuart

Brian Lula wrote:

>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: 
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>http://www.heavensgloryobservatory.com/Color_Jpegs/m101FRGB07-6303Eweb.jpg
>
>Comments welcome.
>
>Best regards, Brian
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>Brian Lula
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