Indian photographer captures Whirlpool galaxy with his Canon camera

New Delhi, April 03: Indian amateur photographer captured the Whirlpool galaxy which is located about 31 million light-years from the earth through his canon camera.

 

 

Hailing from Canada, Yuvnish Bhardwaj shared this photograph from his Facebook account. He has shot with Astro modified Canon T2i and 8 inch Meade SC telescope with focal length 2032mm.According to Yuvnish, it took 2.5 hours to successfully take capture this moment on his camera. He said," Total 2.5 hours of integration in cold Windy Bortle 3 Dark site in Squamish BC."

 

Talking about the photograph he said that "it took him three hours to balance this 10 kg set up on Eqr pro mount to guide perfectly at that focal length on a windy dark night."

 

He added by saying that "Collimation fell apart due to a drop in temperature to -10. But when 1st sub popped up camera screen, I was stunned to have photographed from 31 million light-years away from earth!"

The Whirlpool Galaxy is also known as Messier 51a, M51a, and NGC 5194. It has been circling M51 in a gravitational collision for the last half billion years or so. It’s now slightly behind M51.

 

The star bridge connecting them and the dust clouds are covering part of NGC 5195 are both a result of the ongoing gravitational interaction, which will eventually cause the two galaxies to merge in the upcoming time.

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