M63 - The Tidal Streams around the Sunflower Galaxy

by Lyaphine (Sophie Paulin)

Objects in field: Sunflower Galaxy, M 63, NGC 5055

Equipment: TS-Optics Photoline 140mm f/6.5, ZWO ASI2600MM Pro

Integration: 31h 27m

Phew, what a crazy project this was... but we did it! This image is a collaborative effort of @Jakob Sahner , @Jens Unger and me. Jens and me run our shared remote observatory in Spain. Jakob is our dear neighbor with his scope right next to ours While about 50% of the time, our scope is busy looking for new objects in the sky, the other half is dedicated to taking deep exposures of very…