Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 63  ·  NGC 5055  ·  Sunflower Galaxy
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M63 - Sunflower Galaxy, jeff2011
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M63 - Sunflower Galaxy

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M63 - Sunflower Galaxy, jeff2011
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M63 - Sunflower Galaxy

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Perhaps a bit too ambitious for this setup and integration time available. This was really just a filler target until my primary targets rose. I probably won't be able to collect more data on this so I decided to process it to see what I got. It is a good test for the ASI294MC camera. The color in this galaxy is difficult to bring out but I did try to enhance it without causing a bunch of chromatic noise. I did get some which I cleaned up with TGV Denoise.

I continue to have issues with the stars where there is blue on one side and yellow/orange on the other side. Since there are really no larger blue stars in this field I was able to do iterative color masks with color curve adjustments to get rid of the blue and green patches on the stars while still linear which allowed me to use HSV repair before stretching.

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M63 - Sunflower Galaxy, jeff2011