Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  Black-eye galaxy  ·  M 64  ·  NGC 4826
M 65  The Black-Eye Galaxy, Alex Woronow
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M 65 The Black-Eye Galaxy

M 65  The Black-Eye Galaxy, Alex Woronow
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M 65 The Black-Eye Galaxy

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OTA: RCOS (14.5” f/8)

Camera: SBIG STX-16803

Observatory: Deep Sky West

EXPOSURES:

Red: 17 x 1200 sec

Blue: 10 x 1200

Green: 12 x 1200

Lum.: 21 x 1200

Hydrogen: 12 x 1800

Total exposure 26 hours

Image Width: ~1/2 deg

Processed by Alex Woronow using PixInsight, Matlab & Aurora Photo in 2019

A relatively isolated galaxy lying at about 17M light-years from us. It is said to be a barred spiral galaxy with tightly wound arms. It is a Seyfert galaxy (a high-energy radiator with a super-massive central black hole) and almost as brightly shinning. The gas in the outer regions of this M64 is rotating in the opposite direction from the gas and stars in its inner regions. This strange behavior can be attributed to a merger with a satellite galaxy over a billion years ago.

(Source: largely Wikipedia & NASA)

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M 65  The Black-Eye Galaxy, Alex Woronow

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