The astronomical object that I present to you is the spiral galaxy M 63 (NGC 5055) which is located in the constellation of Canes Venatici and is about 30 million light years away from us. It is also called the Sunflower Galaxy due to the large number of spirals. compact interiors full of dust that vaguely resemble a sunflower.Also this photo like the last two I presented was taken with my old Celestron C8 xlt optical tube but this time I installed as a smoother/reducer the Starizona SCT 0.63x IV, the results I got for now are a bit lower than my expectations but still I can, thanks to some processing, use my C8 without major problems. I also wanted to highlight on the galaxy, with a narrow band filter (H alpha) used for filming, many areas of emission of the light produced by the ionization of hydrogen at a wavelength near the infrared, so you will see many small dots and red specks.In addition to the galaxy, you can clearly see star arcs that extend up to 180,000 light years from the center of the galaxy, they are enormous veils made of stars from what remains of satellite galaxies of M 63 which have now disintegrated, source:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230519.html It should also be noted that in the photo there are dozens of very small galaxies that almost blend in with the stars and are located at very large distances from us, for example PGC 2196238 which has a rounded appearance with a bright bar in the center and which can be seen from right of the bright orange star, it is about a billion light years away from us!! Source: Cartes du Ciel planetarium (DSO Catalog) and website:
https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=pgc2196238&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1
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