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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Messier 64, Black Eye Galaxy, Matteo Mooren
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Messier 64, Black Eye Galaxy

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Messier 64, Black Eye Galaxy, Matteo Mooren
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Messier 64, Black Eye Galaxy

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Object type : Spiral galaxy
Distance : 24 million lightyears
Diameter : 70,000 lightyears
Starcount : 100 billion

This is an extraordinary galaxy because of it's center. The center looks like an eye. Probably caused because it absorded a sattelite galaxy with a lot of dust. I took 75 exposures of 2 minutes, but clouds destroyed half an hour of my exposures. A bit less than 2 hours was left over to create this photo.

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Messier 64, Black Eye Galaxy, Matteo Mooren