M63, The Sunflower Galaxy

Is described here in Wikipedia.

It is a spiral galaxy about 37 million light years away and a member of the group of galaxies that also contains M51. This galaxy exhibits a lot of dark clumpy dust lanes.

I imaged it with the 16" Meade and SBIG ST-2000XCM one shot colour CCD camera. 8 frames of 5 minutes exposure were captured using CCDOPS software. This was also used to calibrate the light frames and to stack them into a final image which I then further processed in Photoshop CS3.