M63 - Sunflower Galaxy (M63) (Monty Giavelli)

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

M63 - Sunflower Galaxy (M63), Monty Giavelli

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6/28/2022 update
I reprocessed M63 and got a little of the blue star formation areas to show up. I have really struggled with this galaxy.
When looking at my Ha and Blue images it seems that all the blue star forming areas are right where the Red nebulosities reside, maybe this is why I have had so much trouble getting the blue areas to appear in my image ???

M63 - Sunflower Galaxy
I still can't get the colors right. I don't know if it's my processing or maybe I didn't label my filters in the filter wheel correctly ???

4/14/23
It's been very rainy/cloudy in north Alabama so I decided to reprocess M63.
It's a challenging galaxy, on this go I went with the colors that seem to come naturally and didn't try to bring out blue that was very faint.
I got some pretty good detail in the galaxy and the Ha pulled out the red nebulas.

This galaxy looked pretty small when imaged with my 800mm focal length newtonian so I did a fair bit of cropping.

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Title: M63

Description: The nebulosity is good but no blue star forming areas !

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Description: Finally got a little blue to show.

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Title: Cropped in closer and cleaned it up a bit.

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Title: Sunflower Galaxy

Description: Reprocessed

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