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[jo-astro]

The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, and NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Its distance is 31 million light-years from Earth.

You can see IFN aroud m51

Astrosib 20" F/2.7 + camera FLI kepler 4040

Total Hargb 22h50 mn

CCD autopilot + the skyX +Pixinsight + Photoshop

In remote from E-eye (Fregenal de la sierra ,Spain)

Full image:

https://www.astrobin.com/88985/G/

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[micromaxcomputer]

What an amazing image!

[Daveone]

Amazing..

[youellet]

Beautiful!

[Mert]

FABULOUS image with a huge amount of background galaxies.

[jo-astro]

Thank you guys!

[yuzameh]

I'm guessing the faint translucent 'fogginess' in places is the IFN, because I'm pretty sure the denser and more obvious bits coming the galaxies are the star (and possibly gas) streams being whipped around due to their interaction.