M 100 (NGC 4321) Galaxy in Coma Berenices
Located at: RA 12 hours 22 minutes 55 seconds, Dec +15 degrees 49 minutes 25 seconds
Size: 7.5' x 6.3'; Magnitude: 10.1 blue; Class: SAB(s)bc
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c & -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 540 minutes (54 x 10 minute subs), 05/30/31 & 06/01/2008; seeing 2.0-2.7 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.7, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
See the film image of this lovely spiral galaxy in Coma that was being imaged from Mt Pinos when the 1994 Northridge earthquake struck |