Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 63  ·  NGC 5055  ·  Sunflower Galaxy
M63, Jan Scheers
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M63, also known as the 'Sunflower Galaxy', is a bright spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici with approximately 400 billion stars.
This galaxy is located roughly 30 million light-years from Earth.

Image captured with the Officina Stellare ProRC 700 telescope and FLI PL16803 camera from Telescope Live in IC Astronomy Observatory, Oria, Spain.

Total integration time: 495 minutes
LRGB 8:10:8:9 sub-frames of 300s and 8:7:8:9 sub-frames of 600s
Dataset Telescope Live.

Processing with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop CC with AstroPanel Pro, Astronomy Tools and NoiseXTerminator plug-ins.

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M63, Jan Scheers