M 104 (NGC 4594) Galaxy in Virgo

Located at: RA 12 hours 40 minutes 00 seconds, Dec -11 degrees 37 minutes 34 seconds

Size: 8.8' x 3.5'; Magnitude: 9.0 blue; Class: SA(s)a sp

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

  ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Red filter, 500 minutes  (50 x 10 minute subs) 05/29/30/31/2010; seeing 1.9-4.4 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 2.6.3800.24688, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Notes:

This image replaces a cropped (this image is the full field), red-filtered 200 minute image from 06/18/2006. See here to see a crop/resizing of this image