NGC-5174 and NGC-5175

One of the most well known interacting pair of galaxies, the Whirlpool is around 31 million lightyears distant. Images over a couple of weeks at the start of April, this image is made-up of 238 x 3 minute exposures totalling 11.9 hours of data. Integrated and processed in Pixinsight Equipment is an Altair Wave 115EDT with 0.79x FF/FR, Starlight Express Trius 694 mono and Baader filters.