Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  Sombrero galaxy
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M104 Sombrero Galaxy, Jeff Coldrey
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M104 Sombrero Galaxy

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M104 Sombrero Galaxy, Jeff Coldrey
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M104 Sombrero Galaxy

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This galaxy has such a cool name and has a particularly bright galactic centre, making it one of the brightest galaxies within 40 million light years of our own.

Capturing with my short focal length refractors and large pixels does not do it justice, so I've taken the liberty of using amateur data kindly shared by Jim Misti (http://www.mistisoftware.com/astronomy/).

SBIG LRGB filters:

12 x 5 minutes Luminance unbinned

4 x 5 minutes each R/G/B unbinned

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M104 Sombrero Galaxy, Jeff Coldrey