Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  Sombrero Galaxy
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M104 The Sombrero Galaxy, Shannon Calvert
M104 The Sombrero Galaxy
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M104 The Sombrero Galaxy

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M104 The Sombrero Galaxy, Shannon Calvert
M104 The Sombrero Galaxy
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M104 The Sombrero Galaxy

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This iconic edge-on spiral galaxy is about 31 million light years away in Virgo and boasts a huge collection of globular clusters. Eventually I'll get a long imaging session on a clear night for this target, but it hasn't happened yet. Another late start left me with a limited data set that I combined with similar groups from 2021 and 2020 to get a fairly decent result.

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M104 The Sombrero Galaxy, Shannon Calvert