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M51 Whirlpool Galaxy & NGC 5195

📷 Irwin Seidman 🌌 M51 Whirlpool Galaxy & NGC 5195 Galaxy 📍 Sauble, Owen Sound, Oliphant & Silcote September 15, 2026

About This Image

This is our second Seestar collaboration. The image was captured over multiple intermittent nights between April 20, 2026 and July 7, 2026. Data was collected from backyards in Sauble, Owen Sound and Silcote and at the E.S. Fox Observatory. No filter was used for about 80% of other data and roughly 20% of the data used the LP filter to enhance the star forming regions.

📅 Acquisition Sessions

Date Filter Frames Sec/Frame Sub-total Bortle
2026-09-07 None (80%) / LP (20%) 3216 10s 8h 56m —
Total Integration 8h 56m
9h
Integration
1
Sessions
4
Likes
46
Views

🔭 Equipment

Telescope / Lens Seestar S50
Camera Seestar S50
Filters None (80%) / LP (20%)
Software Pixinsight, Photoshop
Collaborators DJ Perin, Richard Suchow, Irwin Seidman

👤 Astro Imager

Member Irwin Seidman
Posted Sep 15, 2026

🔭 See It in the Sky

Explore where M51 Whirlpool Galaxy & NGC 5195 sits in the night sky and compare it with professional survey images. Drag to move, scroll or pinch to zoom.

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Visible light from the Digitized Sky Survey (Palomar & UK Schmidt telescopes).

Sky atlas: Aladin Lite, CDS, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France. Survey imagery © the respective survey teams.

💬 Comments (1)

Adam Hofmann Sep 15, 2026

Great collaboration! Well done.

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