M64 THE BLACK EYE GALAXY
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M64 THE BLACK EYE GALAXY
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| Processing Data: | Object Info: |
| Negatives - March 1997 | The Black Eye Galaxy shines at Mag. 9.4 in the constellation Coma Berenices. This spiral galaxy has very fine dust lanes in the arms, and a non-descript central core area, with the famous darkened area dust cloud. In larger scopes this area shows up with veins of dark and luminous areas. This object is similar to M 51 in that it is a good visual location type of object, it's narrow field makes for a smaller photographic object in less then longer focal length instruments. However, this emulsion photographic detriment, also makes for this as a good object for CCD imaging with their typically smaller imaging areas, but sensitive detectors. |
| Meade 5" ED Refractor F/9 | |
| Manual Guiding | |
| Pentax K1000 Body | |
| Kodak PJM Multispeed, Unhypered | |
| 1 x 30 Min. Exposure | |
| Image Stacking in Picture Window | |
| Digital Enhanced Curves and AV in Photoshop | |
| Processing Info:
Basic Anti-vignetting and Curving used to maximum extent. No other
processing performed.
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| Object Details Courtesy Burnham's Celestial Handbook, Robert Burnham, Jr. (1978 Dover Publications) | |