M63 - The Sunflower Galaxy (Reprocessed and in colour)

With all the cloud of late I went digging to see if I had any unprocessed data and I found RGB data for a previously published luminance image. 6 hours of data went into this one. I can;t beleive I forgot about taking this data!.

Anyway here's the result of luminance data from last March and RGB data from April! I completely reprocessed the luminance frame too.

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16 March 06 (Lum), 4 Apr 06 (RGB) 10" f/4 Newtonian, ATIK 16HR CCD. Astronomik LRGB filters. Processing: Images Plus, Photoshop CS2, MaximDL.

Great detail Dave.

Thanks Michael, reminds me that its getting to that time of year again, Coma Berinices, Urs Major, Virgo, in short Galaxy hunting territory.

hmmmmmmmmmmmm:)

Some fantastic detail there Dave !!
Looks like you have that gradient issue sorted out once and for all.

Dave,

I hear that in 2008 they are coming out with a new range of memory implants :lol: . Love the image. Not often you see a colour version of this.

Dave,

Loads of delicate structure and detail in the arms around the core. Nice colour as well!

Good stuff.