From April 16th. The Covid-19 sort of took over life there for a while so just now getting caught up on some recent images.
The “Blowdryer Galaxy” also known as M100 was captured two nights ago as the main attraction but a dozen other galaxies can be found without much trouble in the larger frame which is essentially the full usable frame of my current setup.
Borrowed from Jim Gardepe is the following description:
“The galaxy Messier 100, a.k.a. the “Blowdryer Galaxy” (who thinks up these names?) is one of the largest and brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. It is located in the constellation Coma Berenices. Messier 100 is an example of a “grand design” intermediate spiral galaxy. It is approximately 55 million light-years] distant from Earth and has a diameter of 107,000 light years.
Messier 100 is considered a starburst galaxy, with the strongest star formation activity concentrated in its center – where intense star formation has been underway for about 500 million years.”
