M63 (Sunflower Galaxy) (Chiradeep Chhaya)

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

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M63 (Sunflower Galaxy)

The image you see here is the result of a 5-hour exposure of M63, the Sunflower Galaxy. The photo was captured using a ZWO ASI2600MC camera without any filter using 180s subs. Located in the constellation Canes Venatici, M63 is a stunning spiral galaxy approximately 27 million light-years away from Earth. It has a diameter of about 100,000 light-years and a mass estimated to be 1 trillion times that of our sun. The galaxy's spiral arms are a prominent feature in this photo, displaying a range of bright star-forming regions, dust lanes, and gas clouds.

I have been having some issues with my guiding and, being a clear night with good seeing last night, I wanted to see if any (or all) of my previous experiences could be chalked down to seeing. Indeed, while I still had the occasional blips due to DEC backlash and poor PA (I am 18 mins off!!), guiding stayed under 0.65" RMS all night - quite impressive if I may say so! Since it was mostly good, I let imaging run all night. This is the result of choosing 80% best subs from the 5h collection.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	7548762
PixInsight job	FXQDN91R5H7BNKWANC17RXMW2UEVNXXP
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	13h16m25s.136
RA (top/left)	13h19m08s.751
RA (top/right)	13h19m21s.938
RA (bottom/right)	13h13m38s.533
RA (bottom/left)	13h13m31s.259

Dec (center)	+42°00′00″.33
Dec (top/left)	+41°27′17″.73
Dec (top/right)	+42°30′32″.54
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°32′26″.47
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°29′11″.27

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