M63 the Sunflower galaxy
Taken by brian jobson on April 15, 2021 @
Milngavie, Glasgow, Scotland
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M63 the Sunflower galaxy.
several nights in April 2021.
Located in Canes Venatici this galaxy is 29 million light years from us. Composed of some 400 billion stars and receding from us at 484km/sec its classified as a SAbc spiral galaxy. Known as a flocculent galaxy because of its general lack of a large scale continuous spiral structure. Its only when observed in the near infrared that a continuous 2 arm spiral is seen.
I took 25 hrs of subs over several nights in April and after some weeding out because of cloud etc 22hrs were used in the final image.
264 x 300sec subs
william optics flt132. f/l 925mm
asi533mc pro camera at -20deg/c . optolong L Pro filter.
asi120mini guide cam. Zwo OAG.
ioptron CEM 70G mount
Asiair pro controlling imaging and tracking
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