M64 - The Black-Eye Galaxy (Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove))

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: Black Eye Galaxy · Black-eye galaxy · Evil Eye Galaxy · IC 3917 · M 64 · NGC 4826

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M64 - The Black-Eye Galaxy

M64 - The Black-eye Galaxy. Also known as the Evil-Eye Galaxy. Captured on the evening of 5-21-20.

Wow - two clear nights in a row. While this has not helped with my sleep patterns, it has been great to have two perfect nights to capture in a row!

M64 is located 17 million light years away in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It measures about 54,000 light years in diameter - which makes it about half the size of our own Milky Way. It has a swirling central disk of dark dust which gives it a unique look.

This was the result of 49 x 120 second exposures. I was aiming for 60 captures but a recent Window 10 update was causing some problems with my USB camera driver and the camera kept disconnecting and shutting down the capture session. As if this was not already hard enough without Windows getting into the Mix!

30 Dark frames, 50 flat frames and 50 bias calibration frames were also captured. Stacking was done with DeepSky Stacker and processing was done with Pixinsight and Photoshop. Processing was rather quick to see what I had captured.

Shot on a Willam Optics FLT 132mm APO on a IOptron CEM60 mount - ZWO ASI 294MC-Pro camera.

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Description: I revisited this and did some careful reprocessing and I was able to enhance some of the cloud structure around the galactic core..

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Astrometry.net job	3569440
PixInsight job	OIJXMX5PXZZ1JYUW4U1F6L8UU0ZBIR7W
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RA (center)	12h56m42s.22
RA (top/left)	12h54m59s.21
RA (top/right)	12h56m48s.90
RA (bottom/right)	12h58m25s.40
RA (bottom/left)	12h56m35s.49

Dec (center)	+21°41′30″.9
Dec (top/left)	+21°49′46″.2
Dec (top/right)	+21°16′15″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+21°33′11″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+22°06′46″.3

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