Sunflower Galaxy (M63) (Tom L)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 63 · NGC 5055 · PGC 166159 · PGC 2186546 · PGC 2187167 · PGC 2189522 · PGC 2189676 · PGC 2189963 · PGC 2191533 · PGC 2191787 · PGC 2193751 · PGC 2193890 · PGC 2193979 · PGC 2194083 · PGC 2194510 · PGC 2195362 · PGC 2196175 · PGC 2196238 · PGC 2196633 · PGC 2196677 · PGC 2196920 · PGC 3087834 · PGC 45992 · PGC 46093 · Sunflower Galaxy

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Sunflower Galaxy (M63)

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Sunflower Galaxy (M63)

13 hours of OSC data collected over 4 nights. This target is small for my scope and camera and thus is very much undersampled so I'm playing with a drizzle algorithm to upsample it and bring out some detail that way.

Original version is the full stacked image.

Version C was re-integrated with a 3x drizzle. Here, it is heavily cropped (30%.)

Version E adds 11 more hours of H-alpha data. I obtained this data through the Optolong L-eXtreme filter, then extracting Ha using AstroPixelProcessor. This also has a 3x drizzle to upsample and a similar crop to about 30% of the original.

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C

Description: Same 13 hours of data as first version, re-integrated with 3x upsample, heavily cropped (to about 30%) and post-processed again.

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E

Description: Added approx. 11 hours of Ha data to the image to bring out a little nebulosity in M63 and the distant galaxy in frame (UGC 8313 I believe.)

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RA (center)	13h15m46s.883
RA (top/left)	13h18m29s.580
RA (top/right)	13h13m36s.506
RA (bottom/right)	13h13m05s.755
RA (bottom/left)	13h17m55s.761

Dec (center)	+42°03′18″.92
Dec (top/left)	+42°15′43″.30
Dec (top/right)	+42°25′06″.37
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°50′40″.42
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°41′22″.42

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