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Messier 63 with TEC200FL + QHY268

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Hello astrophotographers,

Messier 63 is a beautiful spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici that I had never photographed before. A good opportunity to put the TEC to work here.

M63 with TEC200FL and QHY268
http://www.astrophoton.com/M063.htm

Object identification
http://www.astrophoton.com/images/M063-1_id_big.jpg

Crop in 120% resolution
http://www.astrophoton.com/images/M063-1_crop120.jpg

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That looks so nice Bernhard. Beautiful work!

A nice soft look with outstanding detail. Well done!

Makes me want to go back to mine and “loosen” it up a bit.
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Wow, the cropped version is awesome.

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very nice take , thx .
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Wonderful image
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Very nice 👍
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Stunning amount of detail in the cropped version! Excellent work!

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Amazing details. Congrats.
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Very impressive!! Great work, Bernhard! Thanks for sharing.
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Nicely done, The Sunflower was my first galactic eaa experience.

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Hello Jim, Carole, Jean-Yves, Steve, Jeff, Larry, AstroBee, Marius, StarHugger and all others,

Thank you very much for your nice words and all likes!
Very much appreciated!

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Fantastic detail. That mount does a superb job.
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Congratulations Bernhard on having your image selected as our TSS APOD!

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Fantastic job. I love the cropped image. You brought out excellent detail throughout the galaxy.
Congratulations on TSS APOD. It is well deserved.
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Great work. Congrats on the APOD.
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Congratulations on the well deserved APOD!
Amazing capture 👏
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That's a beautiful photo. The cropped version is awesome as mentioned above. Thank you for sharing!
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So we'll deserved TSS APOD! Congrats.
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Hello SkyHiker, Gordon, Glenn, starfield, Jeff, Big_Eight and AstroBee,

Thank you very much for your nice words and of course for the TSS APOD!

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Amazing image again Bernhard!
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