M101 - Pinwheel Galaxy

Location: Rodeo, New Mexico, USA (109 1 W, 31 52 N)

Date: 6 February 2011

Camera: Alta U16M

Telescope: RC Optical Systems 317mm carbon tube

Frames: Five 10 minute L frames and four 5 minutes exposures in each of RGB binned at 2x2.

Processing: Stacked in CCDStack, layered, balanced, curves, highlights and unsharpened in Photoshop SC4

Comments: Captured using LightBuckets equipment.