Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  Sombrero Galaxy
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M104 - Deep on The Sombrero Galaxy with dust lanes to the core, John Dziuba
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M104 - Deep on The Sombrero Galaxy with dust lanes to the core

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M104 - Deep on The Sombrero Galaxy with dust lanes to the core, John Dziuba
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M104 - Deep on The Sombrero Galaxy with dust lanes to the core

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M104 is a a nearly perfect edge-on view of a elliptical galaxy that is located roughly 31 million light years away.  It is one of my favorite celestial objects.  My goal for this image was to reveal the interior dust lanes all the way to the core and wrapping around the back side. 

No real secret sauce here, just a well tuned instrument, ideal conditions and a lot of luminance data.  I feel like I am pushing my 400mm aperture scope to its limits!

Hope you like it.

CS

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M104 - Deep on The Sombrero Galaxy with dust lanes to the core, John Dziuba