Brian Meyers caught this awesome shot of the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) in Ursa Major with his SVX90T and SVX152T. This face-on spiral galaxy rests roughly 25 million light-years away from Earth and has a diameter of 170,000 light-years. Possessing somewhere around a trillion stars, it has a disk mass order of 100 billion solar masses, with a central bulge of about 3 billion solar masses.

Details:

• Ha – 5h
• RGB – 9h
• Lum – 9h

• Scope – Stellarvue SVX90T | SVX152T
• Imaging Cam - ZWO 2600MM Pro
• Filters – Optolong SHO 3nm | Antlia RGB
• Mount – Sky Watcher CQ350

For more details and an in-depth look at this image, visit Brian’s AstroBin: https://www.astrobin.com/0dt3ms/

Designations: Messier 101, M101, NGC 5457.

References:

Messier 101 (The Pinwheel Galaxy) - NASA Science. (n.d.). https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-night-sky/hubble-messier-catalog/messier-101

Wikipedia contributors. (2024, March 27). Pinwheel Galaxy. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel_Galaxy