Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 63  ·  NGC 5055  ·  Sunflower Galaxy
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M63 - The Sunflower Galaxy, BensAstroStuff

M63 - The Sunflower Galaxy

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M63 - The Sunflower Galaxy, BensAstroStuff

M63 - The Sunflower Galaxy

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Description

Captured over two nights.
Stacked and processed in Siril.
Background Extracted all subframes.
Mean stacking with GESDT rejection (outliers=0.300 significance=0.050), additive+scaling normalized input, normalized output, image weighting from weighted FWHM, equalized RGB
Photometric CC
Background extraction (Correction: Subtraction)
Rotation (90 deg)
Asinh Transformation: (stretch= 250.0, bp=0.00000)
GHS pivot: 0.011, amount: 1014.44, local: -1.50 [0.00 0.50]

In Gimp, Saturation to 1.2.
G'Mic filter Sharpen [Tones] (Amount 1, Centre 23, Values: Normalize Luma)
G'Mic filter Sharpen [Texture] (Strength 1.228, Radius 2, Channels Linear RGB [All])

If it seems a bit dark, it's because I wanted to avoid blowing out the detail in the dust lanes and galaxy center. Zoom in for a closer look.

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M63 - The Sunflower Galaxy, BensAstroStuff

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