The Sunflower galaxy is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici. On summer nights in North America it can be found near the star Cor Caroli. Distance is estimated to be some 29.3 million light years away with an apparent size of 12 x 7 minutes of arc.

This image was made with a Nikon Z7 II and a Nikon 600mm f/6.3 PF lens at f/6.3. It is a stack of 101 40-second exposures at ISO 3200 for a total of 67 minutes of accumulated exposure time. Star tracking was with a Fornax Lightrack II. Images were processed from raw using RawTherapee AMaZE demosaicing and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker. Registered/calibrated intermediate files were then averaged, followed by stretching and color correction using custom Python routines. Some additional final image processing was done with Topaz DeNoise AI and Capture One.