"M 64 was discovered by the English astronomer Edward Pigott. It is located 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices and is best observed in May and have an apparent magnitude of 9.8"
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-64-the-black-eye-galaxy"A peculiar rotation: the inner gas, dust and stars close to the core rotate in oposite direccion of the central and outer regions of it.The dust is a remanat of an old galaxy collision and the oppositely spinning regions is a place of new star formation."
https://esahubble.org/images/opo0404a/This is the galaxy that I chose to work after the comet Neowise, to try to alleviate the saga of galaxies that Maurizio took during the year 2020 that are waiting for me to give them a 'light'. Data acquired from Dec 2019 until April 2020, processed a year later...
It is a very interesting target and without a doubt it needs a lot of integration and good skies to highlight those fine dark filaments that are especially around its core centre and that have earned it that name.
When one looks at the Hubble image of this galaxy, one is captivated. I think there is no galaxy that surprises us in this universe and without a doubt this is one of them.
Observing the files of the process that I did I could verify that this is the first time I used Denoise Topaz, to alleviate the problem of background noise due to the calibration frames not quite well done despite the use of filters.
The fullframe showed a lot of other DSOs that are around the field area of this galaxy and a nice noted star that is a binary system, although there is a lot of them in that area, posted in the Revisions part.
We hope in the future to return to this target and try to give more enhancement to its intrinsic characteristics. Surely with a larger focal length telescope it would be more suitable for this target.
Processed on Feb. 28 and March 1, 2021
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