M63 The Sunflower Galaxy

M63 or NGC5055 is the Sunflower Galaxy, it is a spiral galaxy made up of approximately 400 billion stars, it has a radius of 130,000 light years and is 29.3 million light years from us. Discovered in 17799 by Charles Messier.

 

Celestron 8 inch HD Edge telescope

Canon 6D unmodified camera

Captured using APT

Stacked with Sequator

Processed with Pixinsight

101 exposures of 90 seconds each a total of 1 hour 55 minutes

ISO 1600

 

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