M87 with Black Hole Jet (Frank Colosimo)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: M 87 · NGC 4476 · NGC 4478 · NGC 4486

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M87 with Black Hole Jet

Messier 87 (also known as M87, Virgo A or NGC 4486) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. One of the most massive galaxies in the local universe, it has a large population of globular clusters—about 12,000 compared with the 150–200 orbiting the Milky Way, and some of these can be seen as a halo around the galaxy in my image. It lies about 54 light years away.

The core contains a supermassive black hole (SMBH), designated M87* whose mass is billions of times that of our Sun. The relativistic jet of matter emerging from the core extends at least 1.5 kiloparsecs (5,000 light-years) from the nucleus and consists of matter ejected from a supermassive black hole. The jet can be seen in the image as a faint streak exiting the core pointing down.

Date: Feb 15,22,23 2020

Location: Blue Mountain Vista Observatories,New Ringgold PA

Optics: Celestron EdgeHD 1100 on Paramount MX

Camera: Sbig STL-11000 for RGB

Optics: Starizona Hyperion f/8 12.5 inch, FL 2540 mm on Paramount ME

Camera: Apogee U8300 for Lum

Guiding: ST-402 on Innovations Foresight On-Axis Guider and STL-11000 Self guiding

Exposure: LRGB: L:47x10 R:19x5 min, G:15x5 min, B:15x5 min for a total of 12 hrs (96 subs at avg of 447 sec)

Processing: Image acquisition using CCD Autopilot. Initial processing was done using Maxim DL with subsequent processing with Photoshop.

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RA (center)	12h30m33s.570
RA (top/left)	12h31m01s.275
RA (top/right)	12h31m17s.870
RA (bottom/right)	12h30m04s.814
RA (bottom/left)	12h29m48s.363

Dec (center)	+12°21′11″.39
Dec (top/left)	+12°07′48″.50
Dec (top/right)	+12°31′32″.60
Dec (bottom/right)	+12°34′34″.48
Dec (bottom/left)	+12°10′49″.59

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