Observation by Dean Ashton: The Sunflower Galaxy

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Dean Ashton

Observer

Dean Ashton

Observed

2020 Apr 23 - 20:30

Uploaded

2020 Apr 26 - 09:11

Objects

The Sunflower Galaxy (M63)

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Constellation

Canes Venatici

Field centre

RA: 13^h15^m
Dec: +42°01'
Position angle: +0°26'

Field size

0°24' × 0°18'

Equipment

Celestron 9.25 EdgeHD
CGEM
Celestron Nightscape 10100 OSC
Optolong L-Pro filter and Optolong L-eNhance filter
OAG with LoadstarX2 Guide Camera

Exposure

/f10; 20x600s unfiltered 1x1 bin; 26x600s L-Pro filter 1x1 bin; 9x600s L-eNhance filter 2x2 bin.

Location

St Austell, Cornwall UK

Target name

M63

Title

The Sunflower Galaxy

About this image

The flocculent spiral galaxy M63. I imaged this on the 23rd and 24th March 2020 with the scope at its native /f10. 26x10-minute light frames were captured with an Oprolong L-Pro (luminance) filter. A further 9x10-minute light frames were captured with an Optolong L-eNhance filter (narrow band for Ha, Hb and Oiii). I also had 20x10-minute unfiltered light frames from March 2018 that I threw in for good measure.

I am still experimenting with adding the L-eNhance duo band filtered lights to enhance narrow band data using a colour camera.

Files associated with this observation

M63_55x600s_April2020_DAshton.jpg (1.6 MB)

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Jeremy Shears, Graham Winstanley, Mr Michael Alan Frost, Andy Wilson, Andrew Dumbleton, Mr John William Hughes

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