M64 The Black Eye Galaxy (Steve Argereow)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: Black Eye Galaxy · Black-eye galaxy · Evil Eye Galaxy · M 64 · NGC 4826

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M64 The Black Eye Galaxy

The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Sleeping Beauty Galaxy or Evil Eye Galaxy and designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826) is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years-away in the mildly northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next year. A dark band of absorbing dust partially in front of its bright nucleus gave rise to its nicknames of the "Black Eye", "Evil Eye", or "Sleeping Beauty" galaxy.

Information Credits: Wikipedia

Telescope: Explorer Scientific 127mm CF APO Refractor f/7.5
Mount Celestron Evolution

Camera ZWOASI183MC-Pro Temp -15C, Binning 1 x 1, Gain 120 Offset 20
ZWO EFW

88 X 180 Second Exposures W/Optolong L-Pro Filter
20 Dark Frames
Total Integration Time: 4 Hours 24 Minutes
Acquisition with SharpCap
Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker
Guiding PHD2
Processed with Astra Image

Note: At the time I took this Image, I was having issues with my mount. Anything over
3 minutes the stars had slight trails and I could not dither. Because I couldn't dither, I had walking noise and had the darken the background to eliminate it. This washed out some of the fainter detail. I have since fixed the mount and look forward in the spring to re-visiting M64, hopefully with longer exposures and dithering that will bring out more detail.

Photo taken from Seven Lakes, NC Bortle 4.5

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	5417460
PixInsight job	Z46UDRT30UBGB37VEYOW62ZKCGLOY8W1
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h56m43s.540
RA (top/left)	12h55m54s.149
RA (top/right)	12h57m42s.217
RA (bottom/right)	12h57m32s.246
RA (bottom/left)	12h55m44s.100

Dec (center)	+21°41′11″.34
Dec (top/left)	+21°31′00″.76
Dec (top/right)	+21°34′29″.14
Dec (bottom/right)	+21°51′24″.40
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°47′55″.72

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