M51
24.03.2007 20:00 UTC
Even when the sky was badly polluted with moonlight, I could easily distingush the spiral arms from the halo. With averted vision anyway. The "bridge" between galaxies was not visible. Spiral arms formed a figure of a letter G in the halo.
NGC Object List:
NGC5194 galaxy RA:13h29m52.6 Dec:+47°11m'44" BMag: 8.9, M 51 Whirlpool Galaxy
| Location: Artjärvi | Seeing: 2(5) | Background Sky: 2(5) | Magnification: 115x | Bright 0 deg celcius,medium weather, moon in the sky. |
Added: 20.04.2007 20:00 UTC
