Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 63  ·  NGC 5055  ·  Sunflower Galaxy
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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy, llolson1
M63 The Sunflower Galaxy
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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy

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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy, llolson1
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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy

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Imaged M63 last night and while processing I realized I had some data from last year, so I combined the data into one.

I really like all the galaxies below M63. Also, what I thought was an arm of M63 at the lower right of the galaxy is actually includes a tidal stream from a collision with a dwarf galaxy, PGC46093.

I went back and forth a bit on whether to reduce noise further, but it always seemed at the expense of some of the detail, so it is a little noisy.

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95 L at 240

35 each RGB at 240

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Description: Small tweaks

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C

Description: Used a bad monitor and didn't realize how the background looked on the previous versions

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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy, llolson1

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