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M64

M64

Link: http://www.manoprietoobservatory.com/gallery/galaxies/26
Contains: M 64

Technical card

Imaging telescopes or lenses: RCOS 12.5" Truss

Imaging cameras: SBIG STL6303e

Mounts: Software Bisque Paramount ME

Guiding telescopes or lenses: RCOS 12.5" Truss

Guiding cameras: SBIG STL6303e

Software: Maxim DL

Filters: Astrodon Tru-Balance Generation 2

Accessories: PIR,  Off-Axis Guider Homeyer

Resolution: 1350x840

Dates: April 14, 2004

Locations: Texas, Fort Davis

Frames: 24x600"

Integration: 4.0 hours

Avg. Moon age: 24.07 days

Avg. Moon phase: 30.08%

Description

Object: M64
Constellation: Coma Berenices
Distance: 13.5 million light-years
Magnitude: 8.5
Comments:

M64, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy, owing to the dense dust lanes near the core, and appearing as such in the eyepiece, is approximately 13.5 million light-years distant in the Constellation Coma Berenices. The main core of the black dust cloud is thought to be about 40,000 light-years in diameter, and rotates opposite the inner regions of the galaxy nearer the core, brought on apparently by the absorption of a satellite galaxy, and bringing about heavy star formation activity within the obscurring cloud.

Date: April 2004
Place: Asheville, NC
Exposure Details: LRGB: 120:40:40:40 at -30c, Lumincance unbinned; RGB binned 2
Processing: Processed using Registar, Maxlm, and Photoshop CS

Optics: 12.5" RCOS Truss RC
Focal Length: 2908mm @ f9
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: ST-10XME
Focuser: RCOS
Guiding: On-chip using AO-7
Filters: Tru-Balance LRGB1

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