Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 63  ·  NGC 5055  ·  PGC 166159  ·  PGC 2185175  ·  PGC 2185348  ·  PGC 2186388  ·  PGC 2186506  ·  PGC 2186546  ·  PGC 2187167  ·  PGC 2189522  ·  PGC 2189676  ·  PGC 2189963  ·  PGC 2191533  ·  PGC 2191787  ·  PGC 2192268  ·  PGC 2193751  ·  PGC 2193890  ·  PGC 2193979  ·  PGC 2194083  ·  PGC 2194510  ·  PGC 2196175  ·  PGC 2196238  ·  PGC 2196633  ·  PGC 2196677  ·  PGC 2196770  ·  PGC 2196920  ·  PGC 2197151  ·  PGC 2197647  ·  PGC 3087834  ·  PGC 3087926  ·  And 3 more.
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Messier 63 (RGB), Linda
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Description

I'm still enjoying galaxy season though looking forward to the summer nebulae! For now it's another big spiral galaxy, the Sunflower Galaxy.

Processing:

RGB:
channel combination
DBE
blurxterminator
SPCC
GHS (partial stretch)
starXterminator (extracting screened stars)
GHS (final stretch)
noiseXterminator
HDRMT (heavy mask)
LHE (heavy mask)
MLT (very very mild sharpening)
curves (contrast)
pixel math in stars (screen)

stars:
GHS
unsharp mask (very very mild sharpening)

Original Revision:
RGB:
channel combination
dynamic crop
deconvolution
DBE
generalized hyperbolic stretch script
starnet2 (extracting stars)
TGV Denoise
HDR multiscale transform
LHE
MLT sharpening
pixel math in stars
curves for contrast
EZ Star Reduction

stars:
MLT sharpening (very very mild)

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Revisions

  • Messier 63 (RGB), Linda
    Original
  • Final
    Messier 63 (RGB), Linda
    B

B

Description: Yet another BlurXterminator reprocessing.

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