The Sunflower Galaxy (M63) in HaLRGB (Meeps51)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 63 · NGC 5055 · Sunflower Galaxy

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The Sunflower Galaxy (M63) in HaLRGB

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The Sunflower Galaxy (M63) in HaLRGB

This was a quick target last night when I was testing doing 2x2 binning with the ASI461 and CDK17 with poor seeing but good transparency. The CDK17 is a great OTA, and the 461 a massive sensor - but with very small pixels (3.76um). So when seeing is poor, you're just way way oversampled and things like autoguiding lead to poor results. So my goal was to figure out what we could do in a 2x2 session and how it felt with big (for CMOS land) pixels.

This is a fun target, and even with very little data, came out really nice IMO.

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Title: The Sunflower Galaxy (M63) in HaLRGB with no stars

Description: Zoomed in version of the galaxy with stars removed. I'm again impressed with all the little galaxies in the background that you just otherwise as well as the detail at 2x2 binning (with obvious processing in PI). Impressed with what you can get done with not that much data!

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RA (center)	13h15m50s.424
RA (top/left)	13h15m13s.433
RA (top/right)	13h13m21s.913
RA (bottom/right)	13h16m26s.783
RA (bottom/left)	13h18m20s.470

Dec (center)	+42°01′48″.15
Dec (top/left)	+42°32′42″.93
Dec (top/right)	+41°46′19″.77
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°30′52″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+42°17′04″.74

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