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M104 The Sombrero Galaxy
An 8.9 hr LRGB rendition of the famous edge-on galaxy featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes seen in silhouette against an extensive central bulge of stars. My ground-based DSW Chile PW CKD 17" aperture data (or at least my processing of it) has only blurred details of the dust lane structures in the overwhelming glare of M104's bright central bulge but some dust lanes are visible. About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy contains a central supermassive black hole.
The 8.9 hrs of LRGB data was collected by DeepSkyWest in Rio Hurtato, Chile, in February 2024.
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M104 The Sombrero Galaxy
An 8.9 hr LRGB rendition of the famous edge-on galaxy featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes seen in silhouette against an extensive central bulge of stars. My ground-based DSW Chile PW CKD 17" aperture data (or at least my processing of it) has only blurred details of the dust lane structures in the overwhelming glare of M104's bright central bulge but some dust lanes are visible. About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy contains a central supermassive black hole.
The 8.9 hrs of LRGB data was collected by DeepSkyWest in Rio Hurtato, Chile, in February 2024.
M104Sombrero1