The Black Eye Galaxy (a.k.a. M64) (Kurt Zeppetello)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: Black-eye galaxy · M 64 · NGC 4826

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The Black Eye Galaxy (a.k.a. M64)

Link: http://kurt-zeppetello.blogspot.com/

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The Black Eye Galaxy (a.k.a. M64)

Link: http://kurt-zeppetello.blogspot.com/

M64, the Black Eye Galaxy, is the second deep sky image I took with the new concrete pier. The image has a total exposure of 1 hr and 45 minutes collected over two nights. It took me while find the object on the first night so I lost a lot of time. What really helped in locating it second night was looking at an image by Fred Espenak at Astropixels.com. His image was very similar to what I was seeing and the orientation matched up pretty well. His Field of View was 1.70 deg by 2.56 deg, thus I must have a similar FOV. The pier held the alignment really well even though I removed the mount from the pier. I hope to have the skyshed built soon so I no longer have to break down after each imaging session.

The galaxy is located in the Coma Berenices Constellation and is 24 million light years from Earth and contains a dark band of dust that absorbs light which gives it the "black eye" appearance.

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RA (center)	12h56m40s.87
RA (top/left)	12h57m43s.74
RA (top/right)	12h55m33s.91
RA (bottom/right)	12h55m38s.16
RA (bottom/left)	12h57m47s.67

Dec (center)	+21°41′42″.7
Dec (top/left)	+21°53′01″.0
Dec (top/right)	+21°51′40″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+21°30′21″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°31′43″.4

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