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M64 - The Blackeye Galaxy (imaged from 'Upham', NM) |
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Object Information Imaging Details |
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M64 is a splendid bright galaxy about 20M light-years away in Coma Berenices. It is famous for its prominent dark dust feature. M64 was recently shown to have two counterrotating systems of stars and gas in its disk At magnitude 9, M64 is easily viewed with virtually any telescope. The dark dust lane shows well even in modest-sized scopes. I imaged this object at ASLC's 'Upham' dark sky site. Transparency was excellent; Seeing was average. Clicking the above image will bring up a higher resolution image. |
Telescope: |
Celestron NexStar GPS11 |
Camera: |
Canon 300D (type 1 modified) | |
Filter(s): |
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Misc. Optics: |
Giant Easy Guider (f/5) | |
Exposures: |
13 x 4 minutes @ ISO 800 | |
Guiding: |
Through off-axis guider using GuideDog and a ToUCam. | |
Processing: |
Images converted to tifs using Photoshop CS3. Nebulosity used to stack the images. Additional processing (curves, sharpening) with PS CS3. | |
Enchanted Skies - Astrophotography by Rich Richins (all images copyright, Rich Richins)