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Image of the Sunflower galaxy M63 by Jack Newton.

This image was taken by Jack Newton in East Sooke, British Columbia. He uses a Santa Barbara Instrument Group ST 6 CCD camera at the Newtonian focus of his 25 inch f5 telescope. The image is a tri-colour composite, approximately 5 minute exposures.

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  Martin Germano took this beautiful b/w film image of M63 in April 2001, using his 14.5-inch f/5 Newtonian. For this image, the aperture was stopped to f/6 (12-inch). The image was exposed for 110 minutes on hypered Kodak Tech Pan 2415 film.
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  This CCD image of M63, the Sunflower Galaxy, was taken by Michael Purcell from New Mexico on April 10, 1999 at 22:58 with his 10" Meade SCT and ST-7 CCD camera. It is a 10-minutes exposure.
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