Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 63  ·  NGC 5055  ·  Sunflower Galaxy
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"Dustdevil" M63 Sunflower from Madrid bortle 5/6 sky, Guillermo Gonzalez
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"Dustdevil" M63 Sunflower from Madrid bortle 5/6 sky

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"Dustdevil" M63 Sunflower from Madrid bortle 5/6 sky, Guillermo Gonzalez
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"Dustdevil" M63 Sunflower from Madrid bortle 5/6 sky

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Shot in April across several nights from home at the outskirts of Madrid, I had no option to go to a dark place then, and therefore I have had to deal with some gradients and unwanted signal....

 I managed to put together more than 25 hours and I guess that helped to bring out some of the stuff (faint galaxies and part of the faint halo). I would have liked to have got better the "loop part" of the halo, but I'll have to wait for darker skies next year. Nevertheless I am very happy to have captured the surrounding tidal halo resulting from merging(s) with dwarf galaxy(ies).... in fact so much that I see it now more as a dustdevil than a sunflower!

I have done and re run the whole process in pixinsight at least 10 times... so much to learn and so many learning paths... (many troubles with luminance and Muredenoise.. i dont know why but after applying DBE,it left the image so mottled....)  

Another aspect to highlight is the amount of deep objects captured (even from this lousy sky), I checked a galaxy 1300 MLY away... it amazes me to have captured light from such object so near to the city. 

I hope that you like it, and of course any feedback is welcome...as well as questions. 

The capturing details are:

Red (106 *120s) / Green ( 110 *120s) / Blue (120 * 120s)  
Lum ( 132 * 300s)
Ha (22*600s)


Keep interacting with the near and far Universe! Clear skies, Guillermo!

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Description: 101 galaxies! some of them hundreds of light years away

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"Dustdevil" M63 Sunflower from Madrid bortle 5/6 sky, Guillermo Gonzalez