M63 The Sunflower Galaxy (James R Potts)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 63 · NGC 5055 · PGC 166159 · PGC 2180892 · PGC 2182677 · PGC 2182845 · PGC 2184042 · PGC 2184310 · PGC 2184347 · PGC 2184603 · PGC 2185175 · PGC 2186388 · PGC 2186506 · PGC 2186546 · PGC 2187167 · PGC 2189522 · PGC 2189676 · PGC 2191533 · PGC 2191787 · PGC 2193751 · PGC 2193890 · PGC 2193979 · PGC 2194083 · PGC 2194510 · PGC 2195362 · PGC 2196175 · PGC 2196238 · PGC 2196677 · PGC 2196770 · PGC 2196920 · And 20 more.

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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy

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Long weekend helping our kids move into a new house, I didn't get home until after 11:00 last night, so my capture time was a bit limited. Anyway I did get just over 3.5 hours on M63, I would try to capture more, but sky projections for the rest of the week do not look good.

M63 was the first discovery of Pierre Mechain, a friend of Charles Messier. Messier logged it as M63 the same day, 6-14-1779. M63 is around million light years away and is estimated to be over 90,000 light year across.

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RA (center)	13h15m34s.394
RA (top/left)	13h14m50s.294
RA (top/right)	13h12m29s.720
RA (bottom/right)	13h16m17s.849
RA (bottom/left)	13h18m40s.874

Dec (center)	+42°02′48″.49
Dec (top/left)	+42°41′23″.62
Dec (top/right)	+41°43′30″.90
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°24′09″.65
Dec (bottom/left)	+42°21′49″.82

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