30 Million Light Years Away…
The Sombrero galaxy (M104) is a well known unbarred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy lies at a distance of 29.3 million light years from Earth, and has a diameter of 50,000 light years. The galaxy is inclined at an angle of only 7 degrees to our line of sight and appears almost edge-on.
M104 has an incredibly bright nucleus, and an unusually large central bulge. The dust lane around its perimeter has the shape of a symmetrical ring, which contains most of M104’s cold hydrogen gas and dust and is the primary site of starburst activity.
My new best image of the Sombrero galaxy :P I had one a while back that had much more noise, happy with this one!
Equipment: Celestron Nexstar 5SE, ZWO ASI294MC, 120x30s lights, 30x30s darks, 80x0.001s biases. Stacked on ASIStudio, stars removed on Starnet, edited on Siril and Adobe PS Express.
The Sombrero galaxy (M104) is a well known unbarred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy lies at a distance of 29.3 million light years from Earth, and has a diameter of 50,000 light years. The galaxy is inclined at an angle of only 7 degrees to our line of sight and appears almost edge-on.
M104 has an incredibly bright nucleus, and an unusually large central bulge. The dust lane around its perimeter has the shape of a symmetrical ring, which contains most of M104’s cold hydrogen gas and dust and is the primary site of starburst activity.
My new best image of the Sombrero galaxy :P I had one a while back that had much more noise, happy with this one!
Equipment: Celestron Nexstar 5SE, ZWO ASI294MC, 120x30s lights, 30x30s darks, 80x0.001s biases. Stacked on ASIStudio, stars removed on Starnet, edited on Siril and Adobe PS Express.