- Description: Whirlpool Galaxy M51 just off the handle of the Big Dipper. This is
actually a pair of interacting galaxies. The main component is NGC5194 and the smaller part is
NGC5195. The brighter component is magnitude 9 and is 10 x 8 arc minutes in size.
- Film: Hypered Kodak Tech Pan
- Scope: 14" Schmidt Cassegrain
- Exposure: 70 Minutes
- Guiding: Manual
- Location: Wilson Coulee Observatory, Ab, Canada
- Date: 1 April, 1992
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