M63: The Sunflower Galaxy
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If you look closely at this spiral galaxy, you may be able to count its approximately 400 billion stars.
Image details
| Telescope: | Stellina | |
| Length: | 400mm | |
| Aperture: | 80mm | |
| F-stop: | f/5.0 | |
| Sessions: | 2 | |
| Captured: | 2021-04-11 to 2021-05-12 | |
| Lights: | 688 | |
| Exposure: | 10 | |
| Total exposure: | 1 h | |
| Ra: | 13h 15m 51.0s | |
| Dec: | +42° 01' 30.149 | |
| Size: | 56.729 x 35.162 arcmin | |
| Radius: | 0.556 deg | |
| Scale: | 0.619 arcsec/pixel |
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