astroenthusiast 279 Posted June 20, 2021 The Sunflower Galaxy, in Canes Venatici boast approximately 400 billion stars. The image was captured on May 05/17/2021 at 3:07 AM ET, using 59 minutes of exposure time. The instrument used was a six-inch APO triplet refractor and CMOS color camera with a temperature of -22 Celsius; the Optolong L-Pro filter was used to reduce the light pollution. 1 Link to comment
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