Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  Sombrero Galaxy
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Sombrero Galaxy - Messier M104, Bruce Rohrlach
Sombrero Galaxy - Messier M104
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Sombrero Galaxy - Messier M104

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Sombrero Galaxy - Messier M104, Bruce Rohrlach
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Sombrero Galaxy - Messier M104

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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The Sombrero Galaxy (Messier Object M104) - Light from the Sombrero Galaxy has travelled unhindered for the past ~ 31 million years (since the early Oligocene) before finally ricocheting 180 degrees off an 8 inch parabolic mirror and secondary mirror and slamming into the CMOS chip of an alien observer in the Orion arm of the Milky Way galaxy (that'll be my camera).

A supermassive black hole with a mass of a billion solar masses resides at the centre of the Sombrero Galaxy, and is required to explain the velocity of the stars in the central bulge of this galaxy.

Skywatcher 1000/200, Nikon D610, stack of 68 subs @ ISO 5000 exp. 5 secs (DSS, Lightroom).

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Sombrero Galaxy - Messier M104, Bruce Rohrlach