Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 63  ·  NGC 5055  ·  Sunflower Galaxy
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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy, Shannon Calvert
M63 The Sunflower Galaxy
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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy

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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy, Shannon Calvert
M63 The Sunflower Galaxy
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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy

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Another try at a target that has proven oddly elusive. After a successful unguided 5 minute test of a newly aligned Astro-Physics mount, I figured 2 minute frames would be no problem and captured 4 hours of data on 6/22. Big mistake. Nearly every frame was stretched and I tossed the whole set as a loss. Two nights later, I captured just over an hour of GUIDED data before the clouds moved in, and that was enough to tease out a nice image. Still bummed about the other 4 hours.

Dr. Steve Labkoff took photos of this galaxy on the same telescope last month with a Nikon D750, and I was able to add his data before stacking for almost three hours of exposure time.

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M63 The Sunflower Galaxy, Shannon Calvert