M100 (Don Pearce)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: M 100 · NGC 4321 · NGC 4322 · NGC 4323 · NGC 4328

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This was a challenge and a lesson learnt. Desperate to get an image from the poor skies of late, I imaged this during April-May mostly with a lot of moon present.

OSC is not very forgiving with moonlight and I had to crop a lot of this image as I just could not get rid of the light pollution. Very low on the horizon did not help me at all. I had to throw a lot of data because of bad drift / flexure / mirror flop etc. Just purchased an off axis guider and now crossing my fingers for better results in the future. I do get envy of all the wonderful galaxy's in the North. Well, I'm posting it anyhow.

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Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321) is a grand design intermediate spiral galaxy in the southern part of the mildly northern Coma Berenices.[4] It is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is approximately 55 million light-years[3] from our galaxy, its diameter being 107,000 light years, and being about 60% as large. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781[a] and 29 days later seen again and entered by Charles Messier in his catalogue "of nebulae and star clusters".[5][6]. It was one of the first spiral galaxies to be discovered,[6] and was listed as one of fourteen spiral nebulae by Lord William Parsons of Rosse in 1850. NGC 4323 and NGC 4328 are satellite galaxies of M100; the former is connected with it by a bridge of luminous matter.[7][8]

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RA (center)	12h22m55s.337
RA (top/left)	12h23m28s.902
RA (top/right)	12h22m16s.920
RA (bottom/right)	12h22m21s.828
RA (bottom/left)	12h23m33s.716

Dec (center)	+15°49′27″.29
Dec (top/left)	+15°56′02″.42
Dec (top/right)	+15°54′15″.50
Dec (bottom/right)	+15°42′51″.45
Dec (bottom/left)	+15°44′38″.50

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