Observation by Karen Smith: M64 - Black Eye Galazy

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Karen Smith

Observer

Karen Smith

Observed

2025 Mar 01 - 05:04

Uploaded

2025 May 04 - 18:36

Objects

The Black Eye Galaxy (M64)

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Constellation

Coma Berenices

Field centre

RA: 12^h56^m
Dec: +21°40'
Position angle: +97°54'

Field size

0°25' × 0°15'

Equipment

Meade 8" LX90 SCT telescope
ZWO ASI2600 MC pro camera
ZWO AM5n mount
ZWO OAG wit ZWO ASI120mm mini camera for guiding
ZWO ASIAIR Plus
Optolong L-Pro filter

Exposure

30 x 180 second plus 45 x 240 second exposures

Location

My back garden in the West Midlands, UK

Target name

Messier 64

Title

M64 - Black Eye Galazy

About this image

I started imaging M64 on 1st March in the early morning, as the previous target (NGC 2903) that night had dropped too low for me to continue imaging it. I continued imaging M64 on 3rd March and finished on 29th March.

Files associated with this observation

M64.jpg (3.7 MB)

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Jeremy Shears, Dominic Ford, Callum Potter, Kenneth Medcalf, Andy Wilson

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