Subject: The Pinwheel Galaxy
Exposure: LRGB (4x15min, 3x30, 2x15, 2x15) 
Processing: Maxim DL, Photoshop CS
Telescope: Takahashi FS102 f8
Camera: SBIG ST-2000XM with FLI CFW-2
Filter: Astrodon E-series filters
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guiding: ST4 on 60mm piggyback refractor
Location:  Fremont Peak, CA
Date: March 5, 2005
Notes: This beautiful face-on spiral galaxy contains about 33 billion stars, about half that of the Milky Way where we live. It is about 25 million light years away, and has a diameter of about 190,000 light years, twice that of the Milky Way.