Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  Sombrero galaxy
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M104, The Sombrero Galaxy, Russell Cockman
M104, The Sombrero Galaxy
Powered byPixInsight

M104, The Sombrero Galaxy

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
M104, The Sombrero Galaxy, Russell Cockman
M104, The Sombrero Galaxy
Powered byPixInsight

M104, The Sombrero Galaxy

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

A mega-giant of a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, the bright compact core, huge stellar halo and intricate equatorial dust lanes are evident. Framed in its context in a the Milky Way star field, many of its several thousand globular clusters, like bees around a honey pot, and other faint fuzzies are also faintly visible. Distance 30Mly.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

M104, The Sombrero Galaxy, Russell Cockman