M64/NGC4826 Galaxy

July 28, 2005

Black Eye Galaxy M6 in Coma Berenices

An Sa or Sb type spiral galaxy with a very large dust cloud in the middle. This galaxy is likely 25 million light years away with a diameter of about 48,000 light years.

Images taken with TEC-140 Telescope mounted on Losmandy G11 mount. Camera used was a Canon EOS20D used at prime focus.

Fiifteen 3 minute exposures dark, flat, and bias compensated, aligned and stacked, background removed and Digitaly Developed in ImagesPlus 2.75 beta 2d.

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