[back] M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy) in Ursa Major[NED]

High resolved image / hoch aufgelöstes Bild (2400 x 2345 Pixel)

Type SBc, distance ~ 5.8Mpc/19MLy,

 

180"

 

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About this Image / Über dieses Bild

CCD: SBIG STX16803
Image Type, Orientation: LRGB-Composite, North is at 9:00h
Exposure time: L: 8x600 sec., R,G,B: 5x600 sec., all 1x1 bin
Exposure date: July 19th…20th, 2011
Location: Skinakas Observatory at Crete, Greece, remote-controlled from Skinakas 30cm-Telescope building/Greece
Filter: ASTRODON 65mm Filterset for STX
Instrument: Ganymed 60cm-Hypergraph in secondary focus (f=4938.3 mm)
Photographer: Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies, Josef Pöpsel
Seeing (FWHM): 1.1"
   
Remarks:

A primary focus image of M101 can be found here, a version with the supernova SN2011fe, which appeared only four weeks after the exposure for this image, can be found here.

 

 

Bemerkungen:

Eine Primärfokusaufnahme von M101 ist hier zu finden, eine Aufnahme mit der Supernova SN2011fe, die nur vier Wochen nach dieser Aufnahme erschien, hier.

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