M87 Virgo A (Michael Feigenbaum)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: IC 3443 · IC 3457 · IC 3459 · M 87 · NGC 4476 · NGC 4478 · NGC 4486 · Virgo Galaxy

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M87 Virgo A

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M87 Virgo A

Here we have Virgo A, aka Messier 87...

To paraphrase from messier-objects.com, this is an enormous elliptical galaxy located in the Virgo Cluster. It contains approximately 1 trillion stars and lies approximately 53.5 million LY from us. It has a visual magnitude of 9.6.

M87 has a super-massive black hole positioned within 60 ly of the core of the galaxy that has a mass estimated to be 6.5 billion solar masses. It is from this super-massive black hole that the relativistic jet comes.

As we all know, it is this black hole that was imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope last year.

I approached this project with the goal of imaging the jet. I did a HDR sub-project for the luminance by doing some 10s frames and combining them with some 60s frames. I was actually hoping for a better outcome. Despite more work on this problem, I still think my collimation is just off enough.

I used HDR Multiscale Transformation to attenuate the light from the galaxy a little bit to reveal the jet. That is shown as the inset image in the upper right corner of the image.

I hope you like it and any comments and/or criticism are always welcome...

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	3376239
PixInsight job	X0KAOSSQKLET2AC0D8ROAWSSP4P24HXA
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RA (center)	12h30m46s.892
RA (top/left)	12h31m55s.690
RA (top/right)	12h29m22s.752
RA (bottom/right)	12h29m38s.760
RA (bottom/left)	12h32m10s.859

Dec (center)	+12°22′57″.52
Dec (top/left)	+12°39′58″.55
Dec (top/right)	+12°35′00″.80
Dec (bottom/right)	+12°05′55″.45
Dec (bottom/left)	+12°10′53″.11

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