CosmicRami on Nostr: Wow! 16 pro-amateur astrophotographers imaged the Whirlpool Galaxy, then combined ...

Wow! 16 pro-amateur astrophotographers imaged the Whirlpool Galaxy, then combined their data to produce an image with 255 hours integration time. This is the result.

Credits and results in here: https://www.astrobin.com/7hwtz0/?fbclid=IwAR1pAzvCnwViMAZebbwJ0ypUHmzZ9YFLWNyM_ZMT8Id1W_nRcix5A7ajLRg

I absolutely love hearing about amateur and pro-am communities collaborating and working together to really highlight the contributions they can make to science.

These communities are pretty much self-funded but can deliver lots!

More on the processing of this image can be found here as well: https://theastroenthusiast.com/m51-processing/

There's also a video they have put together here as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkES2ltGSoc

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