It's a spiral galaxy located in Canes Venatici around 29 million lightyears away from us and is home to 400 billion stars. Named due to visual resemblence to sunflower, containing lot's of brighter areas separated by darker ones and is facing us in such a way as if we were looking at it from above and at an angle, just as a sunflower naturally is growing- always tilted.
Unfortunately I was unable to bring out the tidal loops around it due to light pollution from my backyard, even though I could see some hints of it. This galaxy is especially interesting when you look into all the crisp dark structures inside it, and it's very bright so you can image it even with heavy light pollution or moderate equipment.
Another project from very fruitful 2019 spring, and it's been way too long since I processed an image, mainly due to house repais and baby, but with new astrophotography season underway and house repairs stage 1 coming to an end, I can finally process some stuff, even though I still generate more data thatn I can process
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