13 Nights in May - The Sunflower Galaxy (Robert Shepherd)

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

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13 Nights in May - The Sunflower Galaxy

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13 Nights in May - The Sunflower Galaxy

I spent 13 nights in May 2022 gathering LRGB and Ha of beautiful M63 - the Sunflower Galaxy. Because May is rather late for this target, I couldn’t spend the whole night just on M63 and so it took 13 nights to gather 42 hours of subs that made up this image. I discarded about another 10% due to seeing or other effects. At some point in the past I thought this galaxy wasn't that an interesting target. After seeing images here on Astrobin with lots of integration time though, I realized it's really worth dedicating quite some time. Even at f4.4 and bortle 2 skies it took several hours of luminance to start seeing the star streams around the galaxy. Enjoy and clear skies.

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RA (center)	13h15m47s.830
RA (top/left)	13h18m02s.695
RA (top/right)	13h17m28s.300
RA (bottom/right)	13h13m28s.898
RA (bottom/left)	13h14m07s.437

Dec (center)	+42°02′08″.86
Dec (top/left)	+41°38′09″.87
Dec (top/right)	+42°31′33″.61
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°25′54″.32
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°32′28″.41

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