M63 so cool (even from B7 skies) (John Favalessa)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 63 · NGC 5055 · PGC 2187167 · PGC 2191787 · PGC 2194083 · PGC 3087834 · PGC 46093 · Sunflower Galaxy

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M63 so cool (even from B7 skies)

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M63 so cool (even from B7 skies)

Hey backyard Bortle 7 warriors! Amazing we can do this. Had a few moments in between clouds for a week now...you take what you can get. I would sure have liked to get more RGB as this thing is so colorful. The luminance I captured shows lots of glowing dust but I wasn't able to capture it's blueish color. I wasn't able to get any Ha...clouds and now right at the moon. Lots of processing to get this much out of B7 skies...stunned by the result for sure. I'm thinking this is one of may favorite galaxies, (along with M31, M33, M81, M82...😂) -john

The Sunflower Galaxy, (I actually like this name), at 27MLYs from earth, is known for its bright yellow central region and sweeping spiral arms (only two) interspersed with active star forming regions and dark dust lanes which I find fascinating. The galaxy is roughly 130,000 light years across, about the size of our Milky Way, with about 400 billion stars. It was discovered by Charles Messier's friend and colleague Pierre Méchain on June 14, 1779. This was the first deep sky object discovered by Méchain. Messier subsequently included the galaxy in his catalogue as the 63rd entry, describing it as a nebula. They would be blown away if they spent a night with us and our rigs and saw what we were doing.

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RA (center)	13h15m44s.210
RA (top/left)	13h17m02s.950
RA (top/right)	13h14m31s.913
RA (bottom/right)	13h14m26s.419
RA (bottom/left)	13h16m55s.489

Dec (center)	+42°01′54″.66
Dec (top/left)	+42°16′24″.76
Dec (top/right)	+42°17′27″.33
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°47′20″.68
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°46′19″.48

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