M 60 (NGC 4649) Galaxy in Virgo

Located at: RA 12 hours 43 minutes 40 seconds, Dec +11 degrees 32 minutes 58 seconds

Note: The galaxy in the outer envelope of M 60 is NGC 4647; there are several other NGC galaxies in the field

Size: 7.4' x 6.0'; Magnitude: 9.8 blue; Class: E2

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 Deep Sky filter, 210 minutes (21 x 10 minute subs), 06/12/13/2007

Processing:

CCDStack 1.2, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

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