- Object Information:
- Messier 104, NGC 4594
- Messier 104 is also commonly known as The Sombrero Galaxy. This spiral galaxy is estimated to be about 50 million light years distant and is seen nearly edge on from our perspective. The Sombrero Galaxy is well known for its distinct dark rim of obscuring dust.
- A higher resolution image of Messier 104 can be seen by following this link.
- More information on this interesting object can be found at the SEDS Messier 104 page.
- Imaged at:
- Shelter Valley, San Diego County, California
- February 13, 14, 2010
- Equipment:
- Optics - RC Optical Systems 10" Ritchey-Chretien at f/9
- Mount - Astro-Physics 1200 GTO
- Camera - Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) ST-10XME
- Exposure Information:
- Luminance - a series of seventeen 8 minute exposures for a total exposure time of 2 hours and 16 minutes.
- RGB data - five 8 munute sub exposures for each color channel binned at 2x2.
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