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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M64 - Black Eye Galaxy, Márcio Spínola
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M64 - Black Eye Galaxy

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M64 - Black Eye Galaxy

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It is a spiral galaxy in constellation of Coma Berenices, distant 24 million light-years with dark band of absorbing material.   It is resulting of galaxies collision with smaller galaxy been almost completely assimilated and dark area studied by astronomers showed to be rotating in opposite direction. Dark center region is about 3,000 light-years size and external 40,000 ly (source WikipediA). This photograph was made with 20cm astrograph and not too much detail can be seen in the dart gas area with 400mm length.

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M64 - Black Eye Galaxy, Márcio Spínola