Adam Block's Latest View of the Universe:
M51 : Whirlpool Galaxy
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- Optics 32-inch Schulman Telescope (RCOS)
- Camera SBIG STX16803 CCD Camera
- Filters AstroDon
- Date Spring 2011 (engineering)
- Location Mount Lemmon SkyCenter
- Exposure LRGB = 6.5 : 1.2 : 1.2 : 1.2 Hours
- Acquisition ACP (DC-3 Dreams), TheSky (Software Bisque), Maxim DL/CCD (Cyanogen)
- Processing CCDStack(CCDWare), Maxim DL (Cyanogen), Photoshop CS5 (Adobe)
- Guest Astronomers: September 2011 Image Processing Workshop Participants
- Credit Line & Copyright Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona