SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
Peter Hannah
Location of Photo:
Spain
Date/Time of photo:
Sep 2025
Equipment:
Planewave CDK 14, 10Micron GM2000 mount, ZWO ASI6200 CMOS camera, Astrodon LRGB & Ha filters
Description:
Known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101 is a face-on spiral some 21 million lightyears away in the direction of Ursa Major. This image was acquired with approximately equal exposures through R, G, B and H-alpha filters totaling 22 hours. Processed in PixInsight. Note that several of the red H-a regions are assigned their own NGC catalog numbers.
