M63 Sunflower Galaxy in Canes Venatici

Messier 63 is also known as the Sunflower Galaxy and is one of the most beautiful galaxies in the night sky, so-called due to the wispy spiral arms and bright centre that give it a floral appearance. It may be a spiral, but the spiral arms are not as distinct, well-defined structures as those of the Whirlpool Galaxy, for example.

 

This image is a stack of 75 ten second exposures with my Seestar which has a relatively wide field of view compared to my Celestron C11. Another day I will try to get closer view with the C11.

 

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Picture taken using:

 

Seestar S50

75 Lights at 10 seconds

 

Bortle 4 sky.

Integrated in Astro Pixel Processor and processed in PixInsight.

 

Captions added in Photoshop CS4

 

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