Sunflower Galaxy – M63 and Surroundings

I took this photo with a 250mm f/3.4 reflector and CCD SBIG ST-10XME using the remote telescope iTelescope.NET.

Is the composition of 4 images at 120 seconds of exposition and 10 images at 60 seconds of exposition all with clear filter, it has been processed with IRIS, Lightroom CC, than I made data reduction with Astrometrica and APT and than analyzed with Aladin and TOPCAT.

The photo at the top has a logarithmic scale to make the galaxy more visible. Below I will put some interesting objects I found, mostly galaxies with relative information to make the observation a little more fun.


Messier 63 or M63, also known as NGC 5055 or the seldom-used Sunflower Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici.

Wikipedia

M63

Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 13h15m49.33s, +42d01m45.4s
Redshift: 0.00161
Distance from Earth: 30 Million Ly
Velocity: 700 Km/s
Size: 110000 Ly

NED

WISEA J131803.92+421034.0

Name: WISEA J131803.92+421034.0
Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 13:18:03.90 +42:10:32.9
Redshift: 0.04120 +/- 0.00016
Distance from Earth: 600 Million Ly
Velocity: 12000 Km/s
Size: 50000 Ly

NED

Image from CDS Portal

WISEA J131822.42+421149.8

Name: WISEA J131822.42+421149.8
Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 13:18:22.37 +42:11:50.8
Redshift: 0.14597 +/- 0.00014 
Distance from Earth: 2.1 Billion Ly
Velocity: 40000 Km/s
Size: 130000 Ly

NED & SDSS

image from CDS Portal

WISEA J131625.89+414825.9

Name: WISEA J131625.89+414825.9
Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 13:16:25.93 +41:48:26.3
Redshift: 0.07413 +/- 0.00010	
Distance from Earth: 1.1 Billion Ly
Velocity: 22000 Km/s
Size: 160000 Ly

NED & SDSS

image from CDS Portal

WISEA J131605.92+414615.6

Name: WISEA J131605.92+414615.6
Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 13:16:05.98 +41:46:15.1
Redshift: 0.09161 +/- 0.00016	
Distance from Earth: 1.3 Billion Ly
Velocity: 28000 Km/s
Size: 120000 Ly

NED & SDSS

Image from CDS Portal
Machine generated alternative text:
I-stacked-crop-bgrm 
2.194'x 1.449'

SDSS J131423.10+414444.0

Name: SDSS J131423.10+414444.0
Coordinates: 13:14:23.05 +41:44:44.2
Type: Galaxy
Redshift: 0.09634 +/- 0.00014
Distance from Earth: 1.4 Billion Ly
Velocity: 30000 Km/s
Size: 110000 Ly

NED & SDSS

Machine generated alternative text:
I-stacked-crop-bgrm 
2.142'x 1.535'

UGC 08313

Name: UGC 08313
Coordinates: 13:13:53.49 +42:12:25.1
Type: Galaxy
Redshift: 0.001977 +/- 0.000012
Distance from Earth: 40 Million Ly
Velocity: 800 Km/s
Size: 17000 Ly

NED & SIMBAD

2MASX J13143452+4215270

Name: 2MASX J13143452+4215270
Coordinates: 13:14:34.45 +42:15:26.4
Type: Galaxy
Redshift: 0.062634 +/- 0.000163
Distance from Earth: 900 Million Ly
Velocity: 18000 Km/s
Size: 100000 Ly

NED

image from CDS Portal

WISEA J131447.19+421139.7

Name:  WISEA J131447.19+421139.7
Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 13:14:47.23 +42:11:38.4
Redshift: 0.07556 +/- 0.00016
Distance from Earth: 1.1 Billion Ly
Velocity: 22000 Km/s
Size:  110000 Ly

NED

image from CDS Portal
Machine generated alternative text:
I-stacked-crop-bgrm 
2.142'x 1.449'

WISEA J131618.43+421355.0

Name: WISEA J131618.43+421355.0
Coordinates: 13:16:18.41 +42:13:54.9
Type: Galaxy
Redshift: 0.06247 +/- 0.00016
Distance from Earth: 900 Million Ly
Velocity: 20000 Km/s
Size: 80000 Ly

NED & SDSS

WISEA J131637.51+421510.5

Name: WISEA J131637.51+421510.5
Coordinates: 13:16:37.44 +42:15:10.1
Type: Galaxy
Redshift: 0.12290 +/- 0.00012
Distance from Earth: 1.8 Billion Ly
Velocity:  37000 Km/s
Size: 100000 Ly

SDSS

image from CDS Portal

WISEA J131617.79+420239.5

Name: WISEA J131617.79+420239.5
Coordinates: 13:16:17.81 +42:02:38.6
Type: G
Redshift: 0.06227 +/- 0.00011 
Distance from Earth: 900 Million Ly
Velocity: 20000 Km/s
Size: 70000 Ly

SDSS & NED

WISEA J131611.89+415523.1

Name: WISEA J131611.89+415523.1
Coordinates: 13:16:11.82 +41:55:22.7
Type: G
Redshift: 0.09241 +/- 0.00005	
Distance from Earth: 1.4 Billion Ly
Velocity: 28000 Km/s
Size: 120000 Ly

SDSS & NED

image CDS Portal

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