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Image from the NTU telescope
This image shows the galaxy M51 known as the Whirlpool Galaxy and its companion galaxy NGC 5195 (at the bottom of the image). It was taken with the Meade LX200 14 inch telescope on 12 May 2012 by Pierre Vaurs, a second year student from IUT Clermont-Ferrand in France. It is a combination of eight B images with a 90 second exposure time for each one of them. The Whirlpool Galaxy is estimated to be 23 million light-years from us and is located in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy has a diameter of 11.2 arc minute and a mass of 160 billion solar masses. It is assumed that the centre of M51 contains a super massive black hole surrounded by a ring of dust.
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