Saturday, May 15, 2010

M64 The Blackeye Galaxy

I was attempting to capture a different area of the sky tonight but it was a little to low so I started looking for a different target. I spotted M64 and thought I would give it a shot. There weren't many bright stars in the area so didn't take the time to set up the autoguider. These are 15 second images (50 of them stacked).



From Wikipedia:
The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Sleeping Beauty Galaxy; designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826) was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier in 1780. It has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, giving rise to its nicknames of the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy. M64 is well known among amateur astronomers because of its appearance in small telescopes. It is a spiral galaxy in the Coma Berenices constellation.

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