Monday, April 25, 2022

Galaxy M 100

 














It is still galaxy season! Last night I imaged Messier 100. It is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies and is approximately 55 million light-years from our own galaxy! AWESOME !
Then I ran the image through Astrometery.net which identifies many of the other galaxies and stars in the image... all those smugges are GALAXIES, most are even farther away than M 100.
NGC 4323 and NGC 4328 are satellite galaxies of M 100.























DATA:
Meade LX200GPS 8" with a .63 focal Reducer
Camera: Canon T3i body (modded)
Stack of 7 subs (480 seconds each) at ISO3200
Total integration time:  56 minutes
Stacked with Affinity Photo
Post-processed with Luminar 2018
Cropped in about 50%

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