Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4395
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NGC 4395 in Canes Venatici, 



    
        

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NGC 4395 in Canes Venatici

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NGC 4395 in Canes Venatici, 



    
        

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NGC 4395 in Canes Venatici

Acquisition details

Dates:
March 30, 2020 ·  April 1, 2020
Frames:
Baader RGB 2": 141×180(7h 3′) -40°C bin 1×1
Baader RGB 2": 73×180(3h 39′) -40°C
Integration:
10h 42′
Flats:
25
Bias:
100
Avg. Moon age:
6.50 days
Avg. Moon phase:
40.84%

RA center: 12h26m35s.25

DEC center: +33°2925.9

Pixel scale: 1.105 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 164.328 degrees

Field radius: 0.537 degrees

More info:Open 

Resolution: 2823x2064

File size: 4.1 MB

Locations: Puolivälinkangas - Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Data source: Backyard

Description

This took several nights, fairly dim one but surprisingly large in visual diameter.

NGC 4395 is a low surface brightness spiral galaxy with a halo that is about 8′ in diameter. It has several wide areas of greater brightness running northwest to southeast. The one furthest southeast is the brightest. Three of the patches have their own NGC numbers: 4401, 4400, and 4399 running east to west.[3] The nucleus of NGC 4395 is active and the galaxy is classified as a Seyfert. It is notable for containing one of the smallest supermassive black hole with an accurately-determined mass.[4] The central black hole has a mass of "only" 300,000 Sun masses,[5] which would make it a so-called "intermediate-mass black hole".

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NGC 4395 in Canes Venatici, 



    
        

            Kharan