M64

"The Black Eye Galaxy"

Constellation- Coma Berenices

 

 

Right Ascension: 12h 56m 57s

Declination: +21 39' 49"

Distance: 12,000,000 light years

Visual Brightness: 8.mag

Apparent Dimension: 9.3x5.4 arc minutes

 

Image info:

Date- March 12, 2004

Telescope/Focal length/Camera- NexStar11 GPS @ f/10, ST-8XE NABG @ -20C autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.00

Integrations- 6 x 600 seconds

Processing- Flats/darks/combined in CCDSoft Ver. 5.00, curves and levels in Photoshop 5.0