M95 & M96 (James R Potts)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Leo (Leo) · Contains: M 95 · M 96 · NGC 3351 · NGC 3368 · PGC 1391963 · PGC 1394148 · PGC 1396480 · PGC 1396780 · PGC 1396991 · PGC 1397229 · PGC 1397255 · PGC 1397648 · PGC 1398166 · PGC 1398257 · PGC 1398459 · PGC 1399660 · PGC 1401024 · PGC 1402958 · PGC 1404676 · PGC 1405762 · PGC 3091126 · PGC 31984 · PGC 83326 · PGC 83334 · PGC 83335

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M95 & M96

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M95 & M96

Had a couple of nights of decent skies but I am a little late trying to capture these two guys as they are not above the horizon very long. This is 2 nights of imaging, but only just over 2.5 hours.

The 2 galaxies were discovered together by Pierre Mechain in 1781 and catalogued by Charles Messier that same year. M96 is about 41 million light years away with an estimated diameter of 66,000 light years. M95 is one of the fainter Messier objects with a visual magnitude of 9.7 and of similar size and distance from earth as it neighbor M96.

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RA (center)	10h45m19s.956
RA (top/left)	10h46m28s.907
RA (top/right)	10h42m51s.338
RA (bottom/right)	10h44m10s.987
RA (bottom/left)	10h47m48s.849

Dec (center)	+11°45′23″.77
Dec (top/left)	+12°17′42″.94
Dec (top/right)	+11°48′19″.60
Dec (bottom/right)	+11°13′09″.70
Dec (bottom/left)	+11°42′22″.50

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