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 The small scale
            details in this image are captivating. A sunshine yellow core
            is surrounded by a halo of arms populated by blue supergiant
            stars, hundreds of which are easily resolved in this image. The
            galaxy fills the 3/4 degree wide field, and the camera was oriented
            along a north - south line instead of the normal South up configuration.
            A few pinkish/magenta colored hydrogen clouds can be seen, however
            the camera is far better at recording the individual blue features
            of this enormous near by galaxy.

            
Processing was done
            almost entirely in PixInsight, with some minor touch up in Photoshop
            CS. 

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
Camera:  Canon 10D
Exposure:  4 x 5m
Filters:  None
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  -5 C
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS, PixInsight
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