Here is a beautiful galactic couple. The main object is the famous Whirlpool galaxy cataloged M51 which is a spiral galaxy located in the direction of the Hunting Dogs constellation about 25 million light-years from home.
In company, there is the highly disfigured galaxy cataloged NGC 5195! Indeed, the two form a couple of galaxies in gravitational interaction hence the tidal tail and the bridge of matter that connect them.
Technical details:
– PlaneWave CDK 12.5′ (318mm) at F/D 8
– 10 micron mount GM 2000 combi
– Asi 294 mm pro
– Antlia filter 3.5 nm
– Sampling: 0.38 arcsec
– 140x120s L : 4 h 40 min
– 35x3x120s RGB : 3 h 30 min
– 40x180s Ha : 2h
– Full integration: 10 h 10 min
– DOF: 31/149/25
– Date: February 2022
– Location: HAO1 Observatory of Oukaimeden, Morocco
