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M63 aka. the Sunflower Galaxy and tidal streams, Jari Saukkonen

M63 aka. the Sunflower Galaxy and tidal streams

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M63 aka. the Sunflower Galaxy and tidal streams, Jari Saukkonen

M63 aka. the Sunflower Galaxy and tidal streams

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It's galaxy season but my focal length is just 410mm? No problem!

Inspired by a lecture at the CEDIC conference I started wondering if I could image the galactic tidal streams, very faint leftover from ancient collisions between galaxies. Three well-slept nights and 14 hours later this proved to be true, although they were still so faint that making a decent image with them proved to be impossible. However, they're "clearly" visible in the inverted image in the B) revision.

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  • M63 aka. the Sunflower Galaxy and tidal streams, Jari Saukkonen
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    M63 aka. the Sunflower Galaxy and tidal streams, Jari Saukkonen
    B
  • M63 aka. the Sunflower Galaxy and tidal streams, Jari Saukkonen
    D

B

Description: Inverted image that shows the tidal streams

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D

Description: A collection of galaxies cropped from the full 2.5°x1.9° field

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M63 aka. the Sunflower Galaxy and tidal streams, Jari Saukkonen