Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 63  ·  NGC 5055  ·  Sunflower Galaxy
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M63: Sunflower Galaxy, Michael Caligiuri
M63: Sunflower Galaxy
Powered byPixInsight

M63: Sunflower Galaxy

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M63: Sunflower Galaxy, Michael Caligiuri
M63: Sunflower Galaxy
Powered byPixInsight

M63: Sunflower Galaxy

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

LRGB image of the Sunflower Galaxy
16 x 10min lums (1x1)
4 x 10 min RGB each (1x1)
cropped from original

There are dozens of tiny distant galaxies in this FOV, including 16th mag PGC 4018103 (located just under the galaxy in the halo) that is 1.2 billion light years away.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

M63: Sunflower Galaxy, Michael Caligiuri