NGC 4594 (M104)
NGC 4594 (M104)
| This image of NGC 4594 (M104) is composed of
three 4 minute exposures added together. This was taken on top of Elsinore
Peak on March 9th, 1997 with my Meade LX200 10" telescope with a CB245
and a focal reducer at F/4. M104 is also called the "Sombrero Galaxy"
because of its shape.
This galaxy is part of the Virgo Cluster and appears inclined to our point of view by about 6 degrees from edge-on. At the accepted distance of 40 million light years, the distance across the galaxy is about 82,000 light years, with a corrected red shift of 700 miles per second away from us. |
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