Spiral galaxy M64 is the famous Black Eye galaxy, sometimes also called the
"Sleeping Beauty galaxy". The conspicuous dark structure is a prominent
dust feature obscuring the stars behind. The dust feature is well visible even
in smaller telescopes. A new press release from the Space Telescope Science
Institute gives the distance of M64 as 19 million light years.
Image
is made with Celestron Pixcel 237 CCD Camera through a Celestron 8 at f/3x3.
27x30 second exposure are median combine in CCDSoft software. |
