M64 The Black Eye Galaxy (James R Potts)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: Black Eye Galaxy · Black-eye galaxy · Evil Eye Galaxy · IC 3917 · M 64 · NGC 4826 · PGC 140038 · PGC 1649202 · PGC 1651721 · PGC 1653925 · PGC 1654258 · PGC 1654945 · PGC 1656969 · PGC 1657062 · PGC 1657695 · PGC 1659632

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M64 The Black Eye Galaxy

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M64 The Black Eye Galaxy

Here is just under 6 hours of data on M64, I took over 7 hours of images, but clouds rolled in during the morning so I had to delete several images. I had to crop this more than normal as there was something on my secondary mirror. I have no idea how something would get on the secondary on an enclosed system like my Mak/Newt. Maybe some humidity got onto in the tube and smeared some dust. I ended up taking off my camera and putting an extension on my lens brush, it took a bit, but I finally got the blur spot removed. I am testing out my rig tonight on M63, so we will see how the image turns out. I hate to remove my corrector plate, but I may have to. I didn't capture the eye as well as I have seen some others, I may try to get more data on this.

M64 was discovered in 1779 by Edward Pigott and again later by Charles Messier in 1780. M64 is around 17 million light years away and is 48,000 light year across. Fairly recent studies have made a remarkable discovery that the interstellar gases in the outer regions of the galaxy rotate in the opposite direction as the gas and stars in the inner regions.

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RA (center)	12h56m44s.894
RA (top/left)	12h56m52s.247
RA (top/right)	12h58m19s.864
RA (bottom/right)	12h56m37s.645
RA (bottom/left)	12h55m10s.209

Dec (center)	+21°40′31″.13
Dec (top/left)	+21°15′03″.30
Dec (top/right)	+21°53′22″.96
Dec (bottom/right)	+22°05′59″.24
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°27′36″.10

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