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

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M63 - Sunflower Galaxy

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A rare clear night, low wind, no moon, everything worked equipment wise. Of course farmers were running tillers all night at the last minute with glaring bright spotlights just as I started, but amazingly it didn't affect LRGB due to a strategic parking of cars to block their mega illumination.

I first shot this target a year ago with a smaller refractor  (384mm) and OSC and thought, hmm, not a lot of interesting stuff in this galaxy, but kind of cool. I am very happy to see what shows up with longer (910mm) and Mono LRGB with a super luminance combined L channel. There's actually color and visible dust lanes in those tight spirals!

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M63 - Sunflower Galaxy, AstroDarkSky