Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  HD110086  ·  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  Sombrero Galaxy
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M104 Sombrero Galaxy, Jeff Weiss
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M104 Sombrero Galaxy

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M104 Sombrero Galaxy

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An 8.9 hr LRGB rendition of the famous edge-on galaxy featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes seen in silhouette against an extensive central bulge of stars. My ground-based DSW Chile PW CKD 17" aperture data (or at least my processing of it) has only blurred details of the dust lane structures in the overwhelming glare of M104's bright central bulge but some dust lanes are visible.   About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy contains a central supermassive black hole.

The 8.9 hrs of LRGB data were collected by DeepSkyWest in Rio Hurtato, Chile, in February 2024.

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