"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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Actually it was sort of a pun as it is a drunken looking galaxy but it did
get sloshed about most of the arms are on one side of the nucleus for now.
Come back in a quite a few tens of millions of years and it should be on
the other side. From the literature I was reading it really is sloshing
back and forth as it orbits M101.

I doubt much more time would help much unless I went to your extremes. I
already have 60 minutes in with 18 micron pixels. This is one faint guy.
Though the nucleus is very bright. Any longer subs and it would have
saturated too much to get any detail there. It was burned in using

What sort of ADU counts did you measure in the core region in a subexposure
after exposure but before processing?
It looks to my eye that you could go a lot longer on subs without saturating
the core but you do have some brightish stars that may saturate but they are
comfortably away from the main galaxy so even if they get ugly they will not
damage anything.




the ST-7 on my 6" f/4 scope. Sorry, I still think in film terms.

Rick


Richard Crisp wrote:

here I was expecting to see a drunken galaxy.... that's what I think of
when I hear "sloshed".

but this is another that is distorted due to gravitational interaction:
how interesting.

looks like this one could have used a bit more exposure time.

but it's way better than anything I've been able to do lately


"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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A few hints of spiral arms on the "missing" side can be seen in the
photo. This one is "sloshed" by interaction with M101

14 LX200R @ f/10, L=6x10' RGB=2x10' all binned 2x2, STL-11000XM,
Paramount ME

Rick
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