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M63: The Sunflower Galaxy

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M63: The Sunflower Galaxy
Picture Details:
| Optics | | 24-inch RC Optical Systems Telescope |
| Camera | | SBIG STL11000 CCD Camera |
| Filters | | Custom Scientific |
| Dates | | February 20th 2009 |
| Location | | Mount Lemmon SkyCenter |
| Exposure | | LRGB = 90:30:30:30 minutes |
| Acquisition | | ACP Observatory Control Software (DC-3 Dreams),TheSky (Software Bisque), Maxim DL/CCD (Cyanogen) |
| Processing | | CCDStack (CCDWare), Mira (MiraMetrics), Maxim DL (Cyanogen), Photoshop CS3 (Adobe) |
| Guest Astronomers | | Participants of the September 2009 Image Processing Workshop |
| Credit Line | | Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona (Board of Regents) |
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