Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  PGC 104813  ·  PGC 104819  ·  PGC 116937  ·  PGC 116939  ·  PGC 157913  ·  PGC 157944  ·  PGC 3097710  ·  PGC 42428  ·  PGC 961516  ·  PGC 961836  ·  PGC 961890  ·  PGC 962543  ·  PGC 962963  ·  PGC 963793  ·  PGC 964161  ·  PGC 964710  ·  PGC 964919  ·  PGC 965208  ·  PGC 965461  ·  PGC 965843  ·  PGC 966406  ·  PGC 966776  ·  PGC 966935  ·  PGC 967255  ·  PGC 967653  ·  PGC 967842  ·  PGC 968432  ·  PGC 968577  ·  And 1 more.
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M104, The Sombrero Galaxy, Mark L Mitchell
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M104, The Sombrero Galaxy

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M104, The Sombrero Galaxy

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A 4 h exposure of M104. It is part of the Virgo II group and is 31 Mly away. Most of my references say it is clearly a spiral galaxy, but I saw one paper with data from the Spitzer telescope that suggested elliptical features. M104 is a little low in the sky for me here, so I was happy to get 4 hours of data without my neighbor's trees in the image.

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M104, The Sombrero Galaxy, Mark L Mitchell

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