Imaging telescopes or lenses: Orion EON 130mm ED Triplet APO
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts: Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Orion 60mm Guidescope
Guiding cameras: Orion StarShoot AutoGuider Pro Mono
Focal reducers: Orion 3" Field Flattener
Software: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro · PHD2 · PixInsight 1.8
Filters: Luminance · Red · Green · Blue
Accessory: ZWO EFW
Dates:June 27, 2017
Frames:
Blue: 20x60" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Green: 20x60" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Luminance: 60x60" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Red: 20x60" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 2.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 3.83 days
Avg. Moon phase: 15.70%
Astrometry.net job: 3257692
RA center: 12h 13' 48"
DEC center: +14° 53' 54"
Pixel scale: 0.851 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 85.976 degrees
Field radius: 0.462 degrees
Resolution: 3408x1917
Locations: Backyard (Mag 20.8 - Bortle 4.5), Onalaska, Texas, United States
Data source: Backyard
This object is a spiral galaxy located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is a galaxy that displays some barred features in its core and has tightly-wound arms. It is highly inclined to our line of sight, almost edge-on, at an angle of 74°. Despite the high angle, it is easy to see the dark dust lanes, the yellowish core, and the bluish spiral arms. M98 is unusual in that it is a rare blue-shifted galaxy, which means it is actually headed toward us. This is likely due to gravitational effects on M98 by other nearby galaxies.
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